A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Authority forgets a dying king.
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?