Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. Votes: 12
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. Votes: 10
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. Votes: 10
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. Votes: 8
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. Votes: 0
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. Votes: 0
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. Votes: 0
Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship? Votes: 0
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards." Votes: 0
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. Votes: 0
Breed is stronger than pasture. Votes: 0
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. Votes: 0
Consequences are unpitying. Votes: 0
Even success needs its consolations. Votes: 0
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories Votes: 0
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. Votes: 0
A good horse makes short miles. Votes: 0
I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. Votes: 0
History repeats itself. Votes: 0
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. Votes: 0
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. Votes: 0
Don't judge a book by its cover Votes: 0
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness. Votes: 0
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin. Votes: 0
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another. Votes: 0
The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself. Votes: 0
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough. Votes: 0
Kisses honeyed by oblivion. Votes: 0
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. Votes: 0
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. Votes: 0
... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect. Votes: 0
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. Votes: 0
Those who trust us educate us. Votes: 0
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. Votes: 0
Love supreme defies all sophistry. Votes: 0
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. Votes: 0
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. Votes: 0
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing. Votes: 0
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. Votes: 0
A good solid bit of work lasts. Votes: 0
Animals are such agreeable friends. Votes: 0
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will. Votes: 0
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. Votes: 0
Brothers are so unpleasant. Votes: 0
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say Votes: 0
Go forward with joyful confidence. Votes: 0
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. Votes: 0
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? Votes: 0
I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. Votes: 0
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly. Votes: 0
I flutter all ways, and fly in none. Votes: 0
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. Votes: 0
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures. Votes: 0
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception. Votes: 0
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes. Votes: 0
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends. Votes: 0
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution. Votes: 0
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present. Votes: 0
Joy is the best of wine. Votes: 0
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. Votes: 0
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. Votes: 0
Man cannot choose his duties. Votes: 0
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. Votes: 0
Selfish" a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. Votes: 0
Souls live on in perpetual echoes. Votes: 0
Steady work turns genius to a loom. Votes: 0
That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest. Votes: 0
That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame. Votes: 0
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. Votes: 0
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. Votes: 0
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law. Votes: 0
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. Votes: 0
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. Votes: 0
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room ... Votes: 0
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth. Votes: 0
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. Votes: 0
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. Votes: 0
Trouble's made us kin. Votes: 0
We cannot reform our forefathers. Votes: 0
We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly. Votes: 0
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? Votes: 0
What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? Votes: 0
When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds. Votes: 0
When you see fair hair Be pitiful. Votes: 0
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. Votes: 0
You know I have dutiesââwe both have dutiesââbefore which feeling must be sacrificed. Votes: 0