When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Our first and last love is self-love.
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
