Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
Dandyism is a species of genius.
Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
Words are the only things that last for ever.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Envy is littleness of soul.
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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