Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.