No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather’s weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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.
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.
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.