 Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. |
| The great artist is a slave to his ideals. |
| The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. |
| We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. |
| Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. |
| False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. |
| A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. |
| Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. |
| The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. |
| Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. |
| Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. |
| Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. |
| The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. |
| Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. |
| No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. |
| When all else is lost, the future still remains. |
| The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. |
| Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. |
| In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. |
| Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. |
