Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and c...
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necess...
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or dis...
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
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