The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

There is no education like adversity.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.