Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. |
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. |
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. |
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control |
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. |
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. |
Human life must be some form of mistake |
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind |
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind |
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind |
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. |
If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease |
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. |
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. |
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. |