Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today.
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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