It is almost worth while to be cheated people's little frauds have an interest which amply repays what they cost us.
It is almost worth while to be cheated people's little frauds have an interest which amply repays what they cost us.
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
Isn't it odd that flowers are the reproductive organs of the plants they grow on.
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each other's fur.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
If we're told that an odd piece of our china is worth a hundred pounds, how rare its beauty.
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night.
Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find out.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
An aphorism is that which drags from obscurity a recognizable intuition by clothing it in words.
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
Aphorisms are salted not sugared almonds at Reasons Feast.
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
How often my Soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom I go there myself.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories