Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. |
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. |
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. |
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that most people are so shy of praising anything. |