The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

The dispute is still before the judge.

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

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.