Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
Those who object to wit are envious of it.
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
The more you do, the more you can do.
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