Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.