For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

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

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

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

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

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

Films should be for everybody.

It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

You cannot be brave without fear.

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.