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!
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Cutting honest throats by whispers.
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintan...
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
Welcome as the flowers in May.
Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band...
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!
Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.
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.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
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 sl...
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!