“Imitation belittles.”
“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.”
“Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.”
“Hope is the best part of our riches.”
“Bad taste is a species of bad morals.”
“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.”
“Our first and last love is... self-love.”
“A book should be luminous not voluminous.”
“The great artist is a slave to his ideals.”
“If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.”
“The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.”
“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”
“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
“A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.”
“Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.”
“Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.”
“The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.”
“It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.”
“Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.”
“The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.”
“The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.”
“Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.”
“Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.”
“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”
“Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.”
“What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.”
“Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.”
“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”
“Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.”
“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”