Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
From Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
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