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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
You never know how you look through other people's eyes.
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it
Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.
History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons
Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.
The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.
Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.