Popularity: 0 Vote:  | A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | A fine quotations is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Philosophers call God "the great unknown" "The great misknown" is more like it! |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. |
Popularity: 0 Vote:  | When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. |