“There is success in all honest endeavour, and there is some victory gained in every gallant struggle that is made.”

Finding genuine achievement in sincere effort even without first prize · Speech, Birmingham and Midland Institute, 6 January 1870

• Hope
• Struggle

“We are all of us in the habit of saying in our every-day life, that “We never know the value of anything until we lose it.” Let us try the newsvendors by the test.”

Applying a familiar truth about loss to overlooked everyday services · Speech, London, 9 May 1865

• Memory
• Time

“A common cause must be made in such a design as that which brings us together this night; for without it, nothing can be done, but with it, everything.”

Affirming the power of collective effort in education and social improvement · Speech, Glasgow Athenæum, 28 December 1847

• Friendship
• Hope