Consequences are unpitying.
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.’ I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her… I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.
Blows are sarcasm’s turned stupid.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; …they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; …those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last-the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them-and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, …a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he does not.
The eye is the jewel of the body.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is – Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
