Look back, and smile on perils past.
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.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.