The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

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.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

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.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.