Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'tis his at last who says it best.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world.
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
In general those who nothing have to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
Granting our wish is one of fate's saddest jokes.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
In creating, the only hard thing's to being; a grass - blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
A genuine statesman should be on his guard, if he must have beliefs - not to believe 'em too hard.
Fate loves the fearless.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, but surely God endures forever!
They are slaves who fear to speak for the fallen and the weak; they are slaves who dare not be in the right with two or three.
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