Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
