Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. |
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Topics: Friendship |
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. |
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. |
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. |
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. |
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. |
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. |
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. |
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. |
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. |
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. |
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. |
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. |
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. |
Look twice before you leap. |
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. |
Better to be without logic than without feeling. |
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. |
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. |