National Progress Is The Sum Of Individual

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.

Those Who Aren't Making Mistakes Probably Aren't Making Anything.

The Great High-road Of Human Welfare Lies Along The Old Highway Of Steadfast, Well-doing; And They Who Are The Most Persistent, And Work In The Truest Spirit, Will Invariably Be The Most Successful; Success Treads On The Heels Of Every Right Effort.

Imitation Is For The Most Part So Unconscious That Its Effects Are Almost Unheeded, But Its Influence Is Not The Less Permanent On That Account. It Is Only When An Impressive Nature Is Placed In Contact With An Impressionable One That The Alteration In The Character Becomes Recognizable. Yet Even The Weakest Natures Exercise Some Influence Upon Those About Them. The Approximation Of Feeling, Thought, And Habit Is Constant, And The Action Of Example Unceasing.

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.