The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. |
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. |
Music is the universal language of mankind. |
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. |
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. |
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. |
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. |
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. |
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. |
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. |
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. |
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. |
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. |
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. |
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. |
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. |
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. |
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. |
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. |
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. |