110 quotes
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
Zanoni (1842)
The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.
The Disowned (1828)
Repent!—that is the idlest word in our language.
Paul Clifford (1830)
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.
The Lady of Lyons (1838)
Poverty makes some humble, but more malignant.
Eugene Aram (1832)
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Richelieu (1839)
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Richelieu (1839)
Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light — every eye looking on finds its own.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Ernest Maltravers (1837)
Money well managed deserves, indeed, the apotheosis to which she was raised by her Latin adorers; she is Diva Moneta — a goddess.
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
What Will He Do With It? (1858)
No wonder that the horn-book is the despair of mothers!
The Caxtons (1849)
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus—it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)
What men want is not talent, it is purpose—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
Lucretia (1846)
Take away the sword—
States can be saved without it!
Richelieu (1839)
Love gains the shrine when Pity opes the door.
The New Timon (1846)
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day.
Kenelm Chillingly (1873)