It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself |
It is only when the mind and character slumber that dress can be seen. |
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way |
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. |
It is so easy to give a naughty boy a slap, overpower him in an instant, and make him obey, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can possibly spend time to wait for the slow return of his reason and the conquest of himself in the uncertai |
It is the eye which makes the horizon. |
It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part |
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. |
It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach- bloom complexion |
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. |
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist |
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. |
It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no |
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. |
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do |