“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
Nature“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
Education“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
Nature“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
Best“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
Smile“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”
Death“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
Faith“People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.”
Work“A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.”
Respect“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
Friendship“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
Best“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”
Learning“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
Hope“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.”
Courage“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”
Best“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
Travel“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
Beauty“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
Alone“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
Wisdom“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”
Home“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”
Friendship“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”
Truth