"Nothing but education." And a life's disaster may become the landmark from which there has begun a new era, a broader life for man.
"To make his way at the bar," said an eminent jurist, "a young man must live like a hermit and work like a horse.

There is nothing that does a young lawyer so much good as to be half starved." We are the victors of our opponents.

They have developed in us the very power by which we overcome them.

Without their opposition we could never have braced and anchored and fortified ourselves, as the oak is braced and anchored for its thousand battles with the tempests.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our griefs develop us in a similar way.
"Obstacles," says Mitchell, "are great incentives.