Earth laughs in flowers.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
To choose time is to save time.
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
