Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
