The path of genius is free, and its own
THE rule for travelling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind us. The object of travelling is to see and learn; but such is our impatience of ignorance, or the je...
True friendship is self-love at second hand.
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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.
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.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a
The soul of dispatch is decision.
Faith is necessary to victory.
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