Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
Sensibility is nature’s celestial spring.
The lover’s pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.
Every hour has its end.
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
A fool’s wild speech confounds the wise.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
All is possible for those who dare to die!
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired – thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
Threatened folk live long.