As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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