Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
Love is love's reward.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
But love's a malady without a cure.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
War is the trade of Kings.
Even victors are by victories undone.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
To die is landing on some distant shore.
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
God never made His work for man to mend.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
And plenty makes us poor.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
