Society is composed of two great classes,—­those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.—­CHAMFORT.

Success.—­Nothing is impossible to the man that can will.  Is that necessary?  That shall be.  This is the only law of success.—­Mirabeau.

Nothing succeeds so well as success.—­Talleyrand.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.—­De MAISTRE.

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense.  Nothwithstanding all that is said about “lucky hits,” the best kind of success in every man’s life is not that which comes by accident.  The only “good time coming” we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.—­Samuel smiles.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame.  If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.—­Longfellow.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.—­Sheridan.

The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.—­Samuel smiles.

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.—­W.B.  CLULOW.

’Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it. 
—­Addison.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.—­Joubert.

Successful minds work like a gimlet,—­to a single point.—­Bovee.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.—­Addison.

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.—­H.W.  Shaw.

Suicide.—­Bid abhorrence hiss it round the world.—­Young.

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.—­Sir P. Sidney.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.  —­Aristotle.

Our time is fix’d; and all our days are number’d;
How long, how short, we know not:  this we know,
Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,
Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. 
Like sentries that must keep their destined stand,
And wait th’ appointed hour, till they’re relieved,
Those only are the brave who keep their ground,
And keep it to the last. 

                                    —­Blair.