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

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

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