 A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. |
| We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. |
| What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. |
| The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. |
| There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. |
| Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. |
| Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. |
| There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. |
| Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. |
| Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. |
| I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. |
| What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. |
| A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. |
| One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. |
| The pen is mightier than the sword. |
| In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. |
| If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. |
| One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. Topics: Friendship |
| Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. |
| Art and science have their meeting point in method. |
