Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.
Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
Justice, not the majority, should rule.
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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