Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

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

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

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.