Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, "I will see you in the vestry after service

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.