focus Quotes

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.