National Progress Is The Sum Of Individual

Although Genius Always Commands Admiration, Character Most Secures Respect. The Former Is More The Product Of The Brain, The Latter Of Heart-power; And In The Long Run It Is The Heart That Rules In Life.

Even Happiness Itself May Become Habitual. There Is A Habit Of Looking At The Bright Side Of Things, And Also Of Looking At The Dark Side. Dr. Johnson Has Said That The Habit Of Looking At The Best Side Of A Thing Is Worth More To A Man Than A Thousand Pounds A Year. And We Possess The Power, To A Great Extent, Of So Exercising The Will As To Direct The Thoughts Upon Objects Calculated To Yield Happiness And Improvement Rather Than Their Opposites.

Good Sense, Disciplined By Experience And Inspired By Goodness, Issues In Practical Wisdom.

The Healthy Spirit Of Self-help Created Among Working People Would, More Than Any Other Measure, Serve To Raise Them As A Class; And This, Not By Pulling Down Others, But By Levelling Them Up To A Higher And Still Advancing Standard Of Religion, Intelligence, And Virtue.

Conscience Is That Peculiar Faculty Of The Soul Which May Be Called The Religious Instinct.