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

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

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

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

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

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.