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 or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.