“Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.”

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

Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

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

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

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

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

The will to do, the soul to dare.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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

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

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life’s greatest reward and life’s greatest adventure.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

Three very important points to keep growing. Great team effort.