We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon.
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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?
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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.