Temperance is not only a virtue in itself;  it is also the guard and girdle… of all the other virtues

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

No experience is without value;  sorrow and suffering, the battle of adverse circumstances, afford the richest discipline of all.

The glory and the glow of life come by right living. 

Courage is adversity’s lamp. True courage fears nothing but sin.

Heroic souls in old times had no more opportunities than we have;  but they used them.

owe everything in the world to being always a quarter of an hour beforehand.

Let any one adopt the practice of reflecting, every morning, what must necessarily be done during the day, and then begin by doing the most important things first, leaving the others to take their chance of being done or left undone.

The race is divided into two classes:  those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire ‘Why wasn’t it done the other way?’

What confuses work, what mars life and makes it feverish, is the postponing of a task which ought to be done Now!