As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Trust in my affection for you.
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories