The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
Samuel SmilesCecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
Samuel SmilesNo good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.
Samuel Smiles