Occupation: Novelist Birth: July 4, 1804 Death: May 19, 1864
A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom..
Dream strange things and make them look like truth..
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!.
Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths..
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not..
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you..
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows ho….
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release..
Men of cold passions have quick eyes..
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity..
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind..
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become..
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly res….
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest..
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.….
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it..
Sunlight is painting..
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?.
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep..
This above all: be true, be true, be true..
To do nothing is the way to be nothing..