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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions,
inspirations, flashes of genius.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions,
inspirations, flashes of genius.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent read more
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.
Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those great in war, are great in love.
The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.