The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressu...
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
We talk on principle but we act on interest.
In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
What is reading but silent conversation?
We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.