Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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.
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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.
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
