A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. |
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. |
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. |
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. |
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. |
A library implies an act of faith |
A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children. |
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. |
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. |
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion. |
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. |
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. |
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise |
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. |
Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right. |