Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
Success never needs an excuse.
Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
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