Diligence is the mother of good luck.
-Benjamin Franklin
"Act as if it were impossible to fail."
-Dorothea Brande
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
-Marcus Aurelius
"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."
-Milicent Fenwick
"A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and be merry."
-Ecclesiastes, 8:15
"No profit grows where there is no pleasure ta’en."
-Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
"Who loves not wine, women and song,/Remains a fool his whole life long."
-Martin Luther, attr.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
-William Ellory Channing
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-Lucretius
Character may be manifested in great moments, but it is made in small ones.
-Phillip Brooks
"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."
-Christina Baldwin
"It is not enough to possess wit. One must have enough of it to avoid having too much."
-Andre Maurois
"Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more."
-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"A pessimist is a man who is never happy unless he is miserable: even then he is not pleased."
-Anonymous
"She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens."
-Michael Arlen
"He is a real pessimist - he could look at a doughnut and only see the hole in it."
-Anonymous
Be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Weald (n.) wooded or uncultivated country.
Slyboots (n.) an engagingly sly or mischievous person.
