People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor Quotes
Of all cruelties, those are the most intolerable that come under the name of condolence and consolation.
A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.
To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover! And how much narrower the stage Allotted us to play the sage! But when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands! beside, How long the audience sit before us! How many prompters, what a chorus!
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
