Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

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

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

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."

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

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.