We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
It is to hope, though hope were lost.
While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.