He thought he failed through the world's ingratitude or injustice, but his failure was due wholly to his being out of place.

His bitter disappointments at his half successes were really pitiable because to him they were more than failures.

He had not the slightest sense of color, yet went through life under the delusion that he was an artist.
"If it is God's will to take any of my children by death, I hope it may be Isaac," said the father of Dr.Isaac Barrow.

"Why do you tell that blockhead the same thing twenty times over ?" asked John Wesley's father.
"Because," replied his mother, "if I had told him but nineteen times, all my labor would have been lost, while now he will understand and remember." A man out of place may manage to get a living, but he has lost the buoyancy, energy and enthusiasm which are as natural to a man in his place as his breath.

He is industrious, but he works mechanically and without heart.