Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
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