When you give, give with joy and smiling.
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
Virtue is the health of the soul.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
Ask the young. They know everything.
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
When we love, it is the heart that judges.
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
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