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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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