My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
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.
True love’s the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.