Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.