We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Our first and last love is self-love.
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Example has far more followers than reason.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.
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