Where there is a will there is a way.

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

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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 shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.