The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets..

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in….

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps..

The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of….

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer..

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side..

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion,….

No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of t….

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ide….

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the mem….

As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot….

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments..

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention..

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses ….

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul..

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings..

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline..

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the ….

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought..

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time..

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things..