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

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

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.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.