The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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