Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.