A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. |
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness |
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness |
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. |
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. |
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. |
Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost |
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus |
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus |
Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book |
How little do they see what really is, who frame their judgments upon that which seems |
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others. |
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. |
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. |
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends |