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A lovely girl is above all rank. - [Beauty] A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for. - [Genius] A pretty, silly, self-conceited woman will very often be far more courted, and seemingly far more liked and admired, than a woman of infinitely higher charms. All the while the men do not like her a tenth part as well. - [Attractiveness] Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. - [Anger] Cervantes speaks of potted wisdom as "short sentences drawn from a long experience." - [Brevity] Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than her on common sense. - [Christianity] Concentration alone conquers. - [Brevity] Emulation and imitation are of twin birth. - [Emulation] Heavy sorrow is silent, and the deepest mourning is the most solitary. - [Mourners] How strangely easy difficult things are! - [Difficulties] I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. O hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult. - [Insult] If fortune has fairly sat on a man, he takes it for granted that life consists in being sat upon; but to be coddled on Fortune's knee, and then have his ears boxed;--that is aggravating. - [Fortune] In life, as in chess, forethought wins. - [Forethought] 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. - [Procrastination] It is curious to see how a self-willed, haughty girl, who sets her father and mother and all at defiance, and can't be managed by anybody, at once finds her master in a baby. Her sister's child will strike the rock and set all her affections flowing. - [Babies] Proverbs are potted wisdom. - [Apothegms] Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished; but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. - [Boasting] Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don't scruple freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and make life blither. - [Home] The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him, the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not. - [Education] The first duty toward children is to make them happy. If you have not made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can make up for that. - [Children] The role in carving holds good as to criticism: never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. - [Criticism] The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. - [Criticism] The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. - [Economy] To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. - [Pleasure] We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude. - [Fortitude] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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