At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
Law dies, books never.
The classic literature is always modern.
Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
Poverty has strange bedfellows.
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.
No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.
Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
He who has loved often ... has loved never.
To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
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