In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.
Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
Genius has no brother.
It is a glorious fever, desire to know.
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.
All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.
It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny
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