Man Cannot Aspire If He Looked Down;

The Great Lesson Of Biography Is To Show What Man Can Be And Do At His Best. A Noble Life Put Fairly On Record Acts Like An Inspiration To Others.

Good Character Is Property. It Is The Noblest Of All Possessions.

Liberty Is The Result Of Free Individual Action,energy And Independence.

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.

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.