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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.


In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.


Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.


It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.


The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.


Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.


Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.


They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.


We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.


Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.


Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.


Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.


Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.


Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.


Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.


A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.


The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.


Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.


We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.


Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.