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When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. - [Anger] When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it. - [Sorrow] When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. - [Flattery] Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? - [Parting] Women love energy and grand results. - [Energy] Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence! - [Modesty] Ye have a world of light, When love in the loved rejoices; But the blind man's home is the house of night, And its beings are empty voices. - [Blindness] You see men of the mast delicate frames engaged in active and professional pursuits who really have no time for illness. Let them become idle--let them take care of themselves, let them think of their health--and they die! The rust rots the steel which use preserves. - [Occupations] Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between The one and the other, a sea;-- Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be! - A Lament (l. 10) [Meeting] Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. - Caxtoniana (essay XIV) [Thought] Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own. - Caxtoniana (essay XIV) [Truth] Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. - Caxtoniana (essay XXVI, Readers and Writer) [Business] Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. - Caxtoniana (essay XXVII) [Poets] He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Caxtoniana--Essay XXVII--The Spirit of Conservation [Authorship] In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. - Caxtoniana--Hints on Mental Culture [Reading] Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow, Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize At last the fleeting Now? - Corn Flowers (bk. I, The First Violets) [Future] Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell? - Corn Flowers--The First Violets (bk. I, st. 1) [Flowers] Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave. - Harold (bk. X, ch. II) [Silence] No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 273) [Thieving] Arm thyself for the truth! - Lady of Lyons (act V, sc. 1) [Truth] Fool me no fools. - Last Days of Pompeii (bk. III, ch. 6) [Folly] Time is money. - Money (act III, sc. 3) [Time] If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man. - My Novel (bk. VI, ch. XIV) [Publishing] Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone! - New Timon (pt. II) [Solitude] The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan! - Night and Morning (bk. I, ch. VI) [Tobacco] Displaying page 12 of 14 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13 14
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