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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it. - [Ennui] The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. - [Women] The greater number of nations, as of men, are only impressible in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old. - [Nation] The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.] - [Love of Country] The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. - [Scripture] The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. - [Independence] The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. - [Mind] The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance. - [Benevolence] The passions are the voice of the body. - [Passion] The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences. - [Life] The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances. - [Government] The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation. - [Conversation] The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it. - [Childhood : Children] The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. - [Scripture] The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. - [Indolence] The warder of the mind. - [Voice] The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading. - [Women] The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.] - [World] The world of reality has its limits, the world of imagination is boundless. - [Reality : Imagination] The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul. - [Literature] There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it. - [Vanity] To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. [Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la raison.] - [Eating] To endure is the first thing a child ought to learn, and that which he will have most need to know. - [Endurance] To live is not merely to breathe: it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, senses, faculties,--of all of our parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence. - [Action] To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others. - [Heart] Displaying page 3 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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