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Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary, She I love is far away.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Money is the seed of money.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.