“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Travel“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“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Travel“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”
Art“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
Imagination“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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
Art“People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.”
Work“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“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
Best“There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
Religion“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“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
Respect“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
Art“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“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.”
Truth“The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
Power“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”
Art“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“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”
Home“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