Walpole was an ignorant man, and Charlemagne could hardly write his name so that it could be deciphered; but these giants knew men and things, and possessed that practical wisdom and tact which have ever moved the world.
Tact, like Alexander, cuts the knots it cannot untie, and leads its forces to glorious victory.

A practical man not only sees, but seizes the opportunity.

There is a certain getting-on quality difficult to describe, but which is the great winner of the prizes of life.
Napoleon could do anything in the art of war with his own hands, even to the making of gunpowder.

Paul was all things to all men, that he might save some.

The palm is among the hardest and least yielding of all woods, yet rather than be deprived of the rays of the life-giving sun in the dense forests of South America, it is said to turn into a creeper, and climb the nearest trunk to the light.
A farmer who could not get a living sold one half of his farm to a young man who made enough money on the half to pay for it and buy the rest.