Few love what they may have.
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.
A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.