We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

The ancient teachers of this science... promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be…

There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour …