The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.
But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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