Individualism is an emphasized weakness.

Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The very greatest things, great thoughts, discoveries, inventions have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.

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

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

Misfortune is next door to stupidity, and it will often be found that men who are constantly lamenting their luck, are in some way or other reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, improvidence, or want of application.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure paint the foreground of his life.