He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

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

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.