“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
Peace“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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
Peace“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
Friendship“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
Nature“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”
Home“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“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
Wisdom“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“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“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
Smile“People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.”
Work“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.”
Truth“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
Travel“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
Faith“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
Beauty“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
Best“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Travel“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”
Fear“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
Beauty“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
Alone“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