Literature Quotes - Page 76

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Being is the great explainer.