Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.
Mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. (Notice it does say woman...)
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
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