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

Where there is a will there is a way.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

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

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.