 All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. |
| Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. |
| We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. |
| If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. |
| Look back, and smile on perils past. |
| O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! |
| 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. |
| 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. |
| When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. |
| 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. |
| One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. |
| To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. |
| For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. |
| Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. |
| O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! |
| Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. |
| Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. |
| What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. |
| Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. |
| He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. |
