89 quotes found
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
“To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.”
“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not befo...”
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”
“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.”
“Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.”
“Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.”
“Colors speak all languages.”
“Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.”
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.”
“The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.”
“Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.”
