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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

Youth is a season that has no repose.

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ...

Of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Business before pleasure ...

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

Anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses ...

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

No hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

So much to win, so much to lose,
No marvel that I fear to choose.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Fame is bought by happiness.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

Doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

Confidence is its own security.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Alas! the praise given to the ear
Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

Who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ...

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing ...

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Curiosity is its own suicide ...

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

The stars are so far, far away!

Affection is a habit.

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

Ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

My heart is its own grave!

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

A woman only can understand a woman ...

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ...

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

I never cast a flower away,
A gift of one who car'd for me;
A flower
a faded flower,
But it was done reluctantly.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

In came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

I would give worlds, could I believe
One-half that is profess'd me;
Affection! could I think it Thee,
When Flattery has caress'd me.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others ...

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Habit is our idea of eternity.

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion ...

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ...

All beginnings are very troublesome things ...

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Were it not better to forget
Than but remember and regret

The fearless make their own way ...

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

Though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ...

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

We are ourselves our happiness.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?