Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.
Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES.
Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity. Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confident attitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is-to acquire it.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.
As he offered to advance, she exclaimed, “Remain where thou art, proud Templar, or at thy choice advance! – one foot nearer, and I plunge myself from the precipice; my body shall be crushed out of the very form of humanity upon the stones of that courtyard ere it become the victim of thy brutality!
To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name.
Thus do men throw on fate the issue of their own wild passions.
Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!