Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
We are ourselves our happiness.
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
Curiosity is its own suicide.
To be rude is as good as being clever.
A woman only can understand a woman.
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song, And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along, And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain, And slumber sinks down on the wandering main, And its crystal arms are folded in rest, And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.
to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.
How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.
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