It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. |
It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak |
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time |
It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it |
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. |
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude |
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves. |
It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in |
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon. |
It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence |
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. |
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History. |
It is not length of life, but depth of life. |
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |