It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

Manners are the ornament of action.

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

Character is itself a fortune.

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