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

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

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.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

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

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.