 As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. |
| Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. |
| Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. |
| Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. |
| There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. |
| A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. |
| We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. Topics: Death |
| To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. |
| Death is the cure for all diseases. |
| Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. |
| Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. |
| We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. |
| It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. |
| All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. |
| Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. |
| Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. |
| Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. |
| Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. |
| Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. |
| It is we that are blind, not fortune. |
