At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.
Poverty has strange bedfellows.
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
Law dies, books never.
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.
Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!
Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
He who has loved often ... has loved never.
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