A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Thus do men throw on fate the issue of their own wild passions.

Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own imagination with the females of actual life.

Well, then – our course is chosen – spread the sail – Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well – Look to the helm, good master – many a shoal Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!

The summer dawn’s reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss’d the lake, just stirr’d the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!

God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.

I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

How often we forget all time, when lone, Admiring nature’s universal throne!

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Success in life may be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.

Fair play is a jewel.

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Every hour has its end.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon.

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

The will to do, the soul to dare.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!