Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
From William Hazlitt
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
14 perspectives
9 perspectives
7 perspectives
6 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives