Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
A good solid bit of work lasts.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
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