The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butte...
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
All art is quite useless.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events...
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions...
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no manIs crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, Better the rule...