Idleness Is The Sepulchre Of A Living

Every Man Who Can Be A First-rate Something -- As Every Man Can Be Who Is A Man At All -- Has No Right To Be A Fifth-rate Something; For A Fifth-rate Something Is Not Better Than A First-rate Nothing.

The Secret Of Being Loved Is In Being Lovely; And The Secret Of Being Lovely Is In Being Unselfish.

He That Cannot Paint Must Grind The Colors.

Why Will You Be Always Sallying Out To Break Lances With Other People's Wind-mills, When Your Own Is Not Capable Of Grinding Corn For The Horse You Ride?

We Often Wonder That Certain Men And Women Are Left By God To The Commission Of Sins That Shock Us. We Wonder How, Under The Temptation Of A Single Hour, They Fall From The Very Heights Of Virtue And Of Honor Into Sin And Shame. The Fact Is That There Are No Such Falls As These, Or There Are Next To None. These Men And Women Are Those Who Have Dallied With Temptation--have Exposed Themselves To The Influence Of It, And Have Been Weakened And Corrupted By It.