“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”
Business“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“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”
Business“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
Freedom“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
Religion“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Architecture“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“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Alone“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Nature“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“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”
Jealousy“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
Great“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Death“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”
Change“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Death“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Truth“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Friendship