Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
The wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung,Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain a...
But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakspeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at e...
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.