To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.
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 man and no one who has the...
Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name wi...