“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“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“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“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
Nature“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“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“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Travel“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.”
Truth“There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
Religion“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
Poetry“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“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”
Age“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“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
Knowledge“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“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“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
Wisdom“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
Beauty“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”
Art“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
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“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