The Life Of A Good

Persons With Comparatively Moderate Powers Will Accomplish Much, If They Apply Themselves Wholly And Indefatigably To One Thing At A Time.

The Reason Why So Little Is Done, Is Generally Because So Little Is Attempted.

The Healthy Spirit Of Self-help Created Among Working People Would, More Than Any Other Measure, Serve To Raise Them As A Class; And This, Not By Pulling Down Others, But By Levelling Them Up To A Higher And Still Advancing Standard Of Religion, Intelligence, And Virtue.

Whatever Is Done For Men Takes Away From The Stimulus And Necessity Of Doing Things For Themselves. The Value Of Legislative As An Agent In Human Advancement Has Been Much Over-estimated. No Laws, However Stringent, Can Make The Idle Industrious, The Thriftless Provident Or The Drunken Sober.

Stothard Learned The Art Of Combining Colors By Closely Studying Butterflies Wings; He Would Often Say That No One Knew What He Owed To These Tiny Insects. A Burnt Stick And A Barn Door Served Wilkie In Lieu Of Pencil And Canvas.