It Is Those Who Make The Least

A Small Lie, If It Actually Is A Lie, Condemns A Man As Much As A Big And Black Falsehood. If A Man Will Deliberately Cheat To The Amount Of A Single Cent, Give Him Opportunity And He Would Cheat To Any Amount.

The Greatest Successes Grow Out Of Great Failures. In Numerous Instances The Result Is Better That Comes After A Series Of Abortive Experiences Than It Would Have Been If It Had Come At Once; For All These Successive Failures Induce A Skill Which Is So Much Additional Power Working Into The Final Achievement.... The Hand That Evokes Such Perfect Music From The Instrument Has Often Failed In Its Touch, And Bungled Among The Keys.... Every Disappointed Effort Fences In And Indicates The Only Possible Path Of Success, And Makes It Easier To Find.

Life Itself Suggests A Higher Good Than Life Itself Can Yield.

Think For A Moment Of The Great Agents And Engines Of Our Civilization, And Then Think What Shadowy Ideas They All Once Were. The Wheels Of The Steamship Turned As Swiftly As They Do Now, But As Silent And Unsubstantial As The Motions Of The Inventor's Thought; And In The Noiseless Loom Of His Meditation Were Woven The Sinews Of The Printing-press, Whose Thunder Shakes The World.

We Do Not Compromise Our Own Faith By Admitting The Honesty Of Another's Doubt.