Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life..

The order of things consents to virtue..

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys..

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the ….

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee..

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes..

Culture is one thing and varnish is another..

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations..

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries….

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little..

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, ….

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy..

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!.

To be gret is to be misunderstood..

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society..

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate..

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance..

What we call results are beginnings..

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success..

The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you wo….

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs..