Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
Living requires but little life; doing requires much.
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.
Everything that is exact is short.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
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