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

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

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

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.