Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Stern men with empires in their brains.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Tyranny is always weakness
Light is the symbol of truth.
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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