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Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

The mind's only perfect vassal.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.