It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.