I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again..

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe..

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought..

Love is not in our choice but in our fate..

For they can conquer who believe they can..

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one..

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness..

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us..

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformit….

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age..

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his….

Words are but pictures of our thoughts..

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness..

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly r….

None but the brave deserve the fair..

By education most have been misled..

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant..

Beware of the fury of the patient man..

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law..