There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

And though the abiding sense of duty upholds man in his highest attitudes, it also equally sustains him in the transaction of the ordinary affairs of every-day existence.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use.

They wear the best and last the longest.

We can always better understand and appreciate a man's real character by the manner in which he conducts himself toward those who are the most nearly related to him, and by his transaction of the seemingly commonplace details of daily duty, than by his public exhibition of himself as an author, an orator, or a statesman.
Intellectual culture has no necessary relation to purity or excellence of character.
"On the contrary, a condition of comparative poverty is compatible with character in its highest form.