True friendship is self-love at second hand.
The soul of dispatch is decision.
We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a
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.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
Faith is necessary to victory.
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
The path of genius is free, and its own
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.
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...
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.