Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

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.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.