“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.”
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
