Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

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

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.

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.

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.