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

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

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

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

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.