The sickening pang of hope deferr’d.
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden’s breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.
True love’s the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
And love is loveliest when embalm’d in tears.
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
True love’s the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Just at the age ’twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye ’re sleeping.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
He hath a share of man’s intelligence, but no share of man’s falsehood.
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.