Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.