[Anon.], ‘How to Get On. A Royal Day for Working Men’ [editorial], The Expositor (1851)

It is not true that superior knowledge, ability, or even genius, ensure success. A man with the profoundest knowledge of law or equity, and even fair readiness of speech, may sit before the Chief Justice or the Chancellor, duly wigged and gowned, but with an empty bag and sorely shrunken purse, for years. The ideal of many a true artist is starved out of him, he is a born poet of the pencil or chisel, but neither feed him, though inferior men grow fat upon attempts at art, and win applause by perpetual failures. Men hear of the successful, and none turn back to note those who have fallen by the way. Even the ordinary visitors of the vast show of products cannot fail to be struck with the extraordinary excellence of workmanship in brass, iron tools, machinery, locks, furniture, glass plate, jewellery, musical instruments, carvings, bronzes and castings, papier mache, cutlery, and ornamental steel.