Look back, and smile on perils past.

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

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.

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.