“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Art“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Friendship“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Art“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Death“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Architecture“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
Great“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
Knowledge“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”
Nature“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
God“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”
Best“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
Alone“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
Truth“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
Great“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
God“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Movingon“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Nature“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
Future“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
Trust“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
Freedom“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
Age