Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.