Luck cannot change birth.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

Brighter than Parian marble.