Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets read more

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a read more

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a read more

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of read more

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o'er read more

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.