Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

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

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.