We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
There is a transcendent power in example.
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.
We are rich only through what we give.
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Youth should be a savings bank.
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
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