There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
The more a man writes, the more he can write.
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
Those who can command themselves command others.
A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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