"Circumstance does not make the man; it..." - Quote by James Allen

“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”

“Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.”

“As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.”

“Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”

“Adversity makes strange bedfellows.”

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

“Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.”