There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.Collection: Jealousy
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.Collection: Business
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.Collection: Sympathy
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.Collection: Marriage
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Collection: Great
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.Collection: Beauty
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Collection: Christmas
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.Collection: Change
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.Collection: Home
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.Collection: Power
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.Collection: Imagination
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.Collection: Age
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.Collection: Good
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.Collection: Humor
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.Collection: Age
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.Collection: Friendship
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.Collection: Mom
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.Collection: History
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.Collection: Love
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.Collection: Smile
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.Collection: Learning
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.Collection: Great
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.Collection: Virtue
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.Collection: Dog
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his headCollection: Men
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.Collection: Mother
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.Collection: Daring