The wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man's
curse, the melancholy man's halter.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Power.~--The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a
single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing
his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually
falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent
rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace
behind.--_Carlyle._