Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.