Love dwindles by pairing.
Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.
A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.
You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.
You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world
Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.
Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.
Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.
Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.
A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.
No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.
That art is best which suggests most.
Wisdom grows in quiet places.
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.
If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.
A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie....
There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"
Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.
Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.
Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
Patience has tender feet.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.
We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.
If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.
The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.
Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.
We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.
The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.
Nations die first in the big cities.
