Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.
Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
Wisdom grows in quiet places.
Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
The most dangerous savages live in cities.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.
It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.
Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.
Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.
The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
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