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

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

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

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

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other".R. Alan Woods [2012]

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I like to experiment a lot, I just like to make myself look different to everyone else. Shopping at all different places from vintage to high-street, and then I just put it together myself.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

When you judge others, the issue is almost always with you.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.