If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

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

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.