CHAPTER V.
USES OF OBSTACLES.
Nature, when she adds difficulties, adds brains.—EMERSON.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.—SPURGEON.
The good are better made by ill,
As odors crushed are sweeter still.
ROGERS.
Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crushed or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
GOLDSMITH.
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.—YOUNG.
There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum: force is always aggressive and crowds something.—HOLMES.
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.—HORACE BUSHMILL.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.—HORACE.