Defeat serves to enlighten us.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.