~Vicissitudes.~--We do not marvel at the sunrise of a joy, only at its
sunset! Then, on the other hand, we are amazed at the commencement of a
sorrow-storm; but that it should go off in gentle showers we think quite
natural.--_Richter._
Who ordered toil as the condition of life, ordered weariness, ordered
sickness, ordered poverty, failure, success,--to this man a foremost
place, to the other a nameless struggle with the crowd; to that a
shameful fall, or paralyzed limb, or sudden accident; to each some work
upon the ground he stands on, until he is laid beneath it.--_Thackeray._
~Victory.~--Victory or Westminster Abbey.--_Nelson._
Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels, of a
nation.--_Bolingbroke._