Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.
In France particularly, under the strong and brilliant government of Francis I, there was an outburst of original and vital writing.
No truly great man ever thought himself so.
If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.