He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.