3. A mind must work to grow.—C. W. Eliot.
4. Everybody loves to hear of strange cases; people are eager to tell the doctor of the wonderful cures they have heard of; they want to know what is the matter with somebody or other who is said to be suffering from a complication of diseases, and above all to get a hard name, Greek or Latin, for some complaint which sounds altogether too commonplace in plain English.—Holmes.
5. And at the same time he hated having to break with old associations, and to part from anything to which he had been long accustomed.—Ainger.
6. It paused there an instant, with its fore quarters in the doorway, one fore foot raised, the end of its long tail waving.—J. L. Allen.
7. To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.—MacDonald.
8. The sergeants, seeing these things, told him secrets generally hid from young officers.—Kipling.
9. Children learn to speak by watching the lips and catching the words of those who know how already.—Lowell.
10. Strength of will is the power to resist, to persist, to endure, to attack, to conquer obstacles, to snatch success from the jaws of death and despair.—J. F. Clarke.
11. The waves of yesterday are gone today; and the calm of today will be tumultuous tomorrow.—Beecher.
12. To suffer and to do, that was thy portion in this life.—De Quincey.