Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
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.