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. |