The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.