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| Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. | | Uncategorized | |
| Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. | | Uncategorized | |
| Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. | | Failure; Success | |
| Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. | | Children; Poetry | |
| That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away. | | Uncategorized | |
| The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor | | Uncategorized | |
| The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Mankind; Power | |
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| The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier | | Uncategorized | |
| There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. | | Uncategorized | |
| There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. | | Uncategorized | |
| Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition. | | Uncategorized | |
| To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. | | Uncategorized | |
| To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. | | Uncategorized | |
| To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. | | Uncategorized | |
| True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven. | | Uncategorized | |
| Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. | | Uncategorized | |
| Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow | | Vengeance | |
