The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.