Occupation: Dramatist Birth: October 18, 1800 Death: March 27, 1886
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel..
If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him..
...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned t….
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes..
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren..
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are….
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance….
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher ….
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-lov….
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting..
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say..
We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'….
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which….
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice..
His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body..
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them..
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give..
Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love..
The world knows nothing of its greatest men..
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight..
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means..