When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.