Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.