Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

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

With will one can do anything.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

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

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

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.