 The most learned are often the most narrow minded. |
| There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. Topics: Friendship |
| The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. |
| Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. |
| The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. |
| Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. |
| Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. |
| A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. |
| Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. |
| Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. |
| We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. |
| No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. |
| The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. |
| To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. |
| Prejudice is the child of ignorance. |
| I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. |
| The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. |
| Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. |
| There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. |
| No truly great person ever thought themselves so. |
