Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
You speak As one who fed on poetry.
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.
The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.
People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.
The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.
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