Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
You speak As one who fed on poetry.
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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