 We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. |
| Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. |
| Resolve and thou art free. |
| Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. |
| If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. |
| People demand freedom only when they have no power. |
| The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. |
| Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. |
| The human voice is the organ of the soul. |
| The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. |
| The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. |
| The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. |
| Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. |
| It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. |
| Evil is only good perverted. |
| For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. |
| Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. |
| Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. |
| Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. |
| All things must change to something new, to something strange. |
