 As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. |
| Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. |
| We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. |
| In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. |
| The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. |
| We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. |
| Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. |
| Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. |
| It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. |
| A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. |
| Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. |
| There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. |
| Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. |
| Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. |
| Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. |
| Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. |
| Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. |
| They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. |
| Our first and last love is self-love. |
| It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. |
