All mankind love a lover.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Travel is a fools paradise.
Accept your genius and say what you think.
The less government we have the better.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
The eye is the jewel of the body.
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
