If the whole be greater than a part of him man must be greater than that part of him which is found in a book |
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. |
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality |
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. |
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest. |
In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the few. |
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail |
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . . |
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything |
It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves. |
It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best |
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. |
It is recorded of many great men, who did not end their days in a workhouse, that they were nonretentive of money |
It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fierce |
Life that ever needs forgiveness has for its first duty to forgive |