The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it.
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Our first and last love is - self-love.
Galileo called doubt the father of invention it is certainly the pioneer.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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