Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Resolve and thou art free.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
All things come round to him who will but wait.