By the white neckcloth, with its straightened tie,
The sober hat, the Sabbath-speaking eye,
Severe and smileless, he that runs may read
The stern disciples of Geneva's creed.

Holmes.

To tell thy miseries will no comfort breed;
Men help thee most that think thou hast no need;
But if the world once thy misfortunes know,
Thou soon shalt lose a friend and find a foe.

Randolph

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign
Can match the fierce, unutterable pain
He feels, who night and day, devoid of rest,
Carries his own accuser in his breast.

Oh grant me, Heaven, a middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great;
More than enough for Nature's ends,
With something left to treat my friends.

Whate'er betides, by destiny 'tis done,

Gifford.

Mallet.

And better bear like men than vainly seek to shun.

Dryden.

The wise and active conquer difficulties
By daring to attempt them; sloth and folly
Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard,
And make the impossibility they fear.

A spirit yet unquelled and high,
That claims and seeks ascendency.

Rowe.

Byron.

True courage scorns

To vent her prowess in a storm of words,
And to the valiant actions speak alone.

He hath a daily beauty in his life.

The brave man is not he that feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;

But he whose noble soul its fear subdues,

Smollett

And bravely dares the danger Nature shrinks from.

Joanna Baillie.

Superiority to circumstances is exactly what distin guishes and marks the great man.

There is strength

Deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck
But little till the shafts of Heaven have pierced
Its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent
Before her gems are found?

Mrs. Hemans,

O happy they who never saw the court,
Nor ever knew great men but by report!

Webster

Every man has waited a whole century to be born, and now has a whole eternity waiting to see what he will do when born.

Poor wretches, that depend

Cariyle.

On greatness' favor, dream as I have done,
Wake and find nothing.

Shakspeare.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Shakspeare.

Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another.

I saw the curl of his waving lash,

And the glance of his knowing eye,

And I knew he thought he was cutting a dash
As his steed went thundering by.

So gentle, yet so brisk, so wondrous sweet,
So fit to prattle at a lady's feet.

Your noblest natures are most credulous.

Poplo

Holmes.

Churchill.

Chapman.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

Who shall dispute what the reviewers say?
Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,
In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff,
Believe a woman or an epitaph,

Or any other thing that's false, before

Pope.

Churchill.

You trust in critics who themselves are sore.

Byron.

Do not insult calamity.

It is a barbarous grossness to lay on

The weight of scorn where heavy misery

Too much already weighs men's fortunes down.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Sees at thy hand no worthy action done.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Jackson.

An emperor in his night-cap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Goldsmith.

A total negligence of dress and air is an impertinent insult upon custom and fashion.

Chesterfield.

Habit with him was all the test of truth: "It must be right; I've done it from my youth."

A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by; and then his state
Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters.

Crabbe.

Shakspe

He danced without theatrical pretence;

Not like a ballet-master in the van

Of his drilled nymphs, but like a gentleman.

Byron.

To be the favorite of an ignominious multitude, a man must descend to their level; he must desire what they desire, and detest all they do not approve; he must yield to their prejudices and substitute them for principles. Instead of enlightening their errors, he must adopt them; he must furnish the sophistry that will propagate and defend them.

Fisher Ames.

A regard for personal appearance is a species of selflove from which the wisest are not exempt, and to which the mind clings so instinctively, that not only the soldier advancing to almost inevitable death, but even the doomed criminal who goes to certain execution, shows an anxiety to array his person to the best advantage.

He that stands upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

Thou little knowest

Scott.

Shakspeare.

What he can brave, who, born and nurst
In Danger's paths, can brave her worst-
Upon whose ear the signal word

Of strife and death is hourly breaking;
Who sleeps with head upon the sword
His fevered hand must grasp in waking.

Moore.