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Nothing gives life a finer touch of grace, than the presence in the family circle of a lovely girl of seventeen.
All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
Notes of Thought (1883)
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Notes of Thought (1883)
Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.
Notes of Thought (1883)
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Notes of Thought (1883)
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Notes of Thought (1883)
How strangely easy difficult things are!
Notes of Thought (1883)
Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Notes of Thought (1883)
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Notes of Thought (1883)
One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's "Live mightily."
Notes of Thought (1883)
A lovely girl is above all rank. Men, however high, must feel her higher, however low.
Silence is the severest criticism.
Notes of Thought (1883)
It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.
Whenever you look at human nature in masses, you find every truth met by a counter truth, and both equally true.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished; but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism: never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A man or a woman may be highly irritable, and yet be sweet, tender, gentle, loving, sociable, kind, charitable, thoughtful for others, unselfish, generous.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Cervantes speaks of potted wisdom of "short sentences drawn long experience."
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
In extent sorrow is boundless,—it pours from ten million sources, and floods the world; but its depth is small,—it drowns few.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can’t do it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)