Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
William Hazlitt
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. 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.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
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