Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

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

One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

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

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.