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

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

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

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.