The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.
Even the weak become strong when they are united.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.