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.

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

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

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

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