Only poetry inspires poetry.
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Let us try what love will do.
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
