“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.