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• Half the failures in life result from pulling in one's horse when it is leaping.
• Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
  -- Julius C. Hare, Augustus W. Hare, Guesses at Truth...
• The honeymooning couple agreed it was a fine day for horseback riding.
  After a mile or so, the bride's mount cantered under a low tree and a branch scraped her forehead lightly....
• Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.
  -- Hare, Julius (1795-1855) and Hare, Augustus (1792-1834), Guesses at truth (1827) series 1...
• I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse.
  Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action....
• Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
  -- John Churton Colli...
• It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times. -- Augustus McCrae
• Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel.
  Handel was half German, half Italian and half English....
• MIDI this, he said, pulling down his....