What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.