We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while...
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
As is our confidence so is our capacity.