A book should be luminous not voluminous. |
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. |
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. |
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality |
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. |
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites |
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. |
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. |
Bad taste is a species of bad morals |
Books are embalmed minds |
Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness |
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. |
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. |
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. |
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. |