46 Quotes by James Ellis

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

The mind paints before the brush.

Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty; in either case it may be a stain or an honor. If he is born in poverty, and his future life throws a lustre over an humble birth, the reward will not only be great, but his name will stand higher on the roll of honor and virtue, than he who can only boast of his proud descent.