An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
William Hazlitt Quotes
Silence is one great art of conversation.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the shelf.
They will no more share a book than a mistress with a friend. If they suspected their favorite volumes of delighting any eyes but their own, they would immediately discard them from the list. Theirs are superannuated beauties that every one else has left off intriguing with, bedridden hags, a ‘stud of nightmares.’
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Clever men are the tools with which bad men work.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
