We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Votes: 12
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. Votes: 5
Cats like men are flatterers. Votes: 0
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. Votes: 0
My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them Votes: 0
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. Votes: 0
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. Votes: 0
Cats ask plainly for what they want. Votes: 0
Children are what the mothers are. Votes: 0
Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. Votes: 0
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. Votes: 0
Consult duty not events. Votes: 0
Delay in justice is injustice. Votes: 0
Falsehood is for a season. Votes: 0
Hope is the mother of faith. Votes: 0
How sweet and sacred idleness is! Votes: 0
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. Votes: 0
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose. Votes: 0
Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language. Votes: 0
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. Votes: 0
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. Votes: 0
The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever. Votes: 0
The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will. Votes: 0
Virtue is presupposed in friendship. Votes: 0
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish. Votes: 0
We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable. Votes: 0