Enthusiasm..the Sustaining Power Of All Great Action

For Want Of Self-restraint Many Men Are Engaged All Their Lives In Fighting With Difficulties Of Their Own Making, And Rendering Success Impossible By Their Own Cross-grained Ungentleness; Whilst Others, It May Be Much Less Gifted, Make Their Way And Achieve Success By Simple Patience, Equanimity, And Self-control.

Politeness Goes Far, Yet Costs Nothing.

The Apprenticeship Of Difficulty Is One Which The Greatest Of Men Have Had To Serve.

The Great Leader Attracts To Himself Men Of Kindred Character, Drawing Them Towards Him As The Loadstone Draws Iron.

England Was Nothing, Compared To Continental Nations Until She Had Become Commercial... Until About The Middle Of The Last Century, When A Number Of Ingenious And Inventive Men, Without Apparent Relation To Each Other, Arose In Various Parts Of The Kingdom, Succeeded In Giving An Immense Impulse To All The Branches Of The National Industry; The Result Of Which Has Been A Harvest Of Wealth And Prosperity, Perhaps Without A Parallel In The History Of The World.