The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
I say that justice is truth in action.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Justice is truth in action.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of dif...