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.
A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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.
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Example has far more followers than reason.
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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.
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