We are wiser than we know.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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