In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.

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

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.