Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

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

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.