 That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. |
| Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. |
| Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. |
| If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. |
| Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. |
| Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. |
| A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. |
| In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. |
| Youth comes but once in a lifetime. |
| There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. |
| It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. |
| Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. |
| Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. |
| Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. |
| In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. |
| Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. |
| The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. |
| Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. |
| There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. |
| Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted. |
