Failure Sometimes Enlarges The Spirit. You Have

A Talent Somewhat Above Mediocrity, Shrewd And Not Too Sensitive, Is More Likely To Rise In The World Than Genius.

The Imaginations Which People Have Of One Another Are The Solid Facts Of Society.

To Have No Heroes Is To Have No Aspiration, To Live On The Momentum Of The Past, To Be Thrown Back Upon Routine, Sensuality, And The Narrow Self.

The Chief Misery Of The Decline Of The Faculties, And A Main Cause Of The Irritability That Often Goes With It, Is Evidently The Isolation, The Lack Of Customary Appreciation And Influence, Which Only The Rarest Tact And Thoughtfulness On The Part Of Others Can Alleviate.

Kindliness Seems To Exist Primarily As An Animal Instinct, So Deeply Rooted That Mental Degeneracy, Which Works From The Top Down,does Not Destroy It Until The Mind Sinks To The Lower Grades Of Idiocy.