Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.—Whipple.
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.—Lucretius.
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing so hard but search will find it out.
—Lovelace.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.—Washington Irving.
Press on! a better fate awaits thee.—Victor Hugo.
Philosophy.—True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.—Lavater.
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.—W.B. Clulow.
The road to true philosophy is precisely the same with that which leads to true religion; and from both the one and the other, unless we would enter in as little children, we must expect to be totally excluded.—Bacon.
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.—Seneca.
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.—Bacon.