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Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive ...

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,
a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

Modesty and chastity are twins

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Violet, the amethyst, signified love and truth; or passion and suffering.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.