If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Bright and illustrious illusions!

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.