The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. |
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. |
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse. |
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. |
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. |
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. |
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. |
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. |
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode |
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. |
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. |
The stars are the apexes of what triangles! |
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. |
The sun is but a morning star. |
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest. |