One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.