 The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. |
| Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. |
| Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. |
| Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. |
| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. |
| Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. |
| Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. |
| Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. |
| Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. |
| Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. |
| To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. |
| It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. |
| Live always in the best company when you read. |
| Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. |
| Heaven never helps the men who will not act. |
| I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. |
| Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. |
| Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. |
| Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. |
