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• Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
  -- William Congreve (1670-1729) -- Letter to Cobham...
• Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
  Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!...
• Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now!
  -- Felicia D. Hemas (1794-1835) -- Siege of Valencia, Scene ix...
• Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Grie
• Little Fly, Thy summer's play If thought is life My thoughtless hand And strength & breath, Has brush'd away.
  And the want Of thought is death, Am not I A fly like thee?...
• Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. -- William Pe
• T were vain to tell thee all I feel, Or say for thee I 'd die.
  -- J. A. Wade (1800-1875) -- 'T were vain to tell...
• Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
  Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up...