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

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.