Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Votes: 9
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. Votes: 5
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Votes: 3
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. Votes: 0
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. Votes: 0
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. Votes: 0
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. Votes: 0
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Votes: 0
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. Votes: 0
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. Votes: 0
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. Votes: 0
A hug is worth a thousand words. Votes: 0
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. Votes: 0
Brutes leave ingratitude to man. Votes: 0
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. Votes: 0
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. Votes: 0
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured. Votes: 0
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. Votes: 0
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. Votes: 0
He who knows himself knows others. Votes: 0
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. Votes: 0
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. Votes: 0
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act. Votes: 0
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion. Votes: 0
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. Votes: 0
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. Votes: 0
Doubt is the vestibule of faith. Votes: 0
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs. Votes: 0
The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves. Votes: 0
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. Votes: 0
Anger is practical awkwardness. Votes: 0
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Votes: 0
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! Votes: 0
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. Votes: 0
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. Votes: 0
Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts. Votes: 0
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. Votes: 0
The smiling daughter of the storm. Votes: 0
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. Votes: 0
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. Votes: 0
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Votes: 0
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. Votes: 0
Mystery is not profoundness. Votes: 0
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. Votes: 0
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good. Votes: 0
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects. Votes: 0
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. Votes: 0
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. Votes: 0
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Votes: 0
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. Votes: 0
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. Votes: 0
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Votes: 0
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth. Votes: 0
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. Votes: 0
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness. Votes: 0
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so. Votes: 0
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. Votes: 0
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. Votes: 0
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. Votes: 0