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Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.
All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.
In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.
In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.