They carry themselves with an air of conscious self-respect and self-content, which a shabby alpaca cannot hide, nor a bonnet of silk enhance, nor even sickness nor exhaustion quite drag out." It is said that the wind never blows fair for that sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
"The weakest living creature," says Carlyle, "by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something; whereas the strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything.

The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock.

The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind." "When I was young I used to think it was thunder that killed men," said a shrewd preacher; "but as I grew older, I found it was lightning.

So I resolved to thunder less, and lighten more." The man who knows one thing, and can do it better than anybody else, even if it only be the art of raising turnips, receives the crown he merits.

If he raises the best turnips by reason of concentrating all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor to the race, and is recognized as such.
If a salamander be cut in two, the front part will run forward and the other backward.