The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
The will to do, the soul to dare.
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.