Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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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.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
