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The curse of the great is ennui.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

What is human is immortal!

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!
a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

The heart of a girl is like a convent
the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

The food of hope is meditative action.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

Ambition has no rest.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model ...

The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The classic literature is always modern.

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.