Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never spent the darksome hours
Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--
He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom,
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,
And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.
No one would talk much in society if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
He who seizes the right moment is the right man.