Pain, thou art not an evil

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Be kind. Aim for my heart.

Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.