If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne. |
In hell there is no retention. |
In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue. |
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. |
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. |
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken? |
It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged |
It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write |
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. |
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket. |
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. |
Jests that give pains are no jests |
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. |
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. |
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. |