Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. |
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. |
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last. |
Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown |
Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired |
Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening |
Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling |
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. |
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. |
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. |
Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer |
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. |
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. |
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round |
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. |