A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument.
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; ’that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.
We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
Conversation is a game of circles.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Art and power will go on as they have done, – will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- – to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.