We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.
Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
Children are what the mothers are.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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