To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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