Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Happiness is a rare plant, that seldom takes root on earth -- few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery. But, there is an admirable substitute for it . . . a contented spirit.
People seem to lose all respect for the past events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
His mind was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.
. . . if those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors and the shelves of libraries would not groan beneath the weight of dusty tomes more voluminous than luminous.
Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.
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