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.
Our first and last love is self-love.
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.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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.
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Winter is the night of vegetation.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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