“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
Alone“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“The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”
Friendship“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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
Beauty“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“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
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“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
Best“The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
Knowledge“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
Friendship“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”
Best“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
Friendship“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“People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.”
Work“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
Friendship“The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.”
Nature“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
Knowledge“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Travel“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
Alone“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
Poetry