“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
Knowledge“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
Knowledge“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
Happiness“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
Great“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Nature“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”
Fear“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Politics“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“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Architecture“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Alone“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Love“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
Hope“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Art“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
Freedom“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
Trust“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Friendship“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Movingon“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
Future“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
God