Genius Borrows nobly.
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
The world is his who has money to go over it.
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
Thought makes every thing fit for use.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
