Though lost to sight, to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain. [ George Linley: Song ]

Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor;
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. [ Cowper ]

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. [ Lessing ]

Struggle against it as thou wilt, yet heaven's ways are heaven's ways. [ Lessing ]

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. [ William M. Thackeray ]

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. [ Ben. Franklin ]

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. [ Mason ]

Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [ Ausonius ]

Nature has said to woman: Be fair if thou canst, be virtuous if thou wilt; but, considerate, thou must be. [ Beaumarchais ]

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [ Ovid ]

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith: and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

Art needs solitude or misery or passion. Lukewarm zephyrs wilt it. It is a rock-flower flourishing by stormy blasts and in stony soil. [ Alex. Dumas ]

Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Beautiful it is to understand and know that a thought did never yet die; that as thou, the originator thereof, hast gathered it and created it from the whole past, so thou wilt transmit to the whole future. [ Carlyle ]

O Truth! pure and sacred virgin, when wilt thou be worthily revered? O Goddess who instructs us, why didst thou put thy palace in a well? When will our learned writers, alike free from bitterness and from flattery, faithfully teach us life? [ Voltaire ]

Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. [ Jean Paul ]