He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.