When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
Business first, then pleasure.
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.
Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
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