The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
Where’s the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
Satire’s my weapon, but I’m too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
What bosom beast not in his country’s cause?
But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e’er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
Education forms the common mind.
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?