One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!