Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

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

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.