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

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

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself.

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