All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

Learn to labour and to wait.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.