O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
From Walter Scott
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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