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Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.
A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
It is often the easiest move that completes the game.
When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.
Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.
Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.
To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.