Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure

The people liked the prospect of the end of the world because it would be a spectacle, something to relieve the fearful monotony of their lives. Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as …

I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phrenomagnetism, and the od force—I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.

Shrews are tamed only by silence.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.