The Thing Which Makes One

I Do Not Know Any Way So Sure Of Making Others Happy As Of Being So Oneself, To Begin With.

Infinite Toil Would Not Enable You To Sweep Away A Mist; But By Ascending A Little, You May Often Look Over It Altogether. So It Is With Our Moral Improvement: We Wrestle Fiercely With A Vicious Habit, Which Could Have No Hold Upon Us If We Ascended Into A Higher Moral Atmosphere.

Rare Almost As Great Poets, Rarer, Perhaps, Than Veritable Saints And Martyrs; Are Consummate Men Of Business. A Man, To Be Excellent In This Way, Requires A Great Knowledge Of Character, With That Exquisite Tact Which Feels Unerringly The Right Moment When To Act. A Discreet Rapidity Must Pervade All The Movements Of His Thought And Action. He Must Be Singularly Free From Vanity, And Is Generally Found To Be An Enthusiast Who Has The Art To Conceal His Enthusiasm.

The Heroic Example Of Other Days Is In Great Part The Source Of The Courage Of Each Generation; And Men Walk Up Composedly To The Most Perilous Enterprises, Beckoned Onward By The Shades Of The Brave That Were.

The World Will Tolerate Many Vices, But Not Their Diminutives.