19 quotes
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, complaining of the present, and trembling for the future.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
To lose one's self in revery, one must be either very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
We never shed so many tears as at the age of hope; but when we have lost hope, we look on everything with dry eyes, and tranquillity springs from incapacity.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
The stampede of our self-possession.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)
The monuments of mutability.
Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)