Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
All men are alike in their lower natures it is in their higher characters that they differ.
The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it.
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary Advantages.
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured But like the sun, only for a time.
Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
A great thought is a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked, then he who is the first to utter it, and then in a lessor, but still in a considerable degree, the man who is the first to quote it to us.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Indeed, excessive sensitiveness is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for it is to make more of our objects, and less of ourselves.
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
The very cunning conceal their cunning the indifferently shrew boast of it.
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile they merely grin.
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency.- A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have great wealth in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls.
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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