We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
There is no cosmetic like happiness
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.
A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
To appear rich, we become poor.
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.
When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
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