Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories