The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that."

"In life, as in chess, forethought wins."

"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them."

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

"Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred."