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

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.