No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
Our first and last love is self-love.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
