For one man that can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. |
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. |
For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion. |
For, if a "good speaker," never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that. . . is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? |
Four thousand people cross London bridge every day, mostly fools |
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams |
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men. |
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. |
Genius (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all). |
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. |
Give me a man who sings at his work. |
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther |
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. |
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. |
Habit is the deepest law of human nature |