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| The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world is good-natured to people who are good natured. | | Uncategorized | |
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang:
"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,
He is a fool his whole life long!" | | Uncategorized | |
| There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. | | Uncategorized | |
There lived a sage in days of yore,
And he a handsome pigtail wore;
But wondered much and sorrowed more
Because it hung behind him. | | Poetry | |
Though small was your allowance,
You saved a little store:
And those who save a little
Shall get a plenty more. | | Uncategorized | |
| To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness? | | Uncategorized | |
| To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness? | | Ambition | |
| To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness? | | Ambition | |
| We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs. | | Uncategorized | |
| What a deal of grief, care, and other harmful excitement does a healthy dullness and insensibility avoid! | | Uncategorized | |
| What peace, what love, what truth, what beauty, what happiness for all, what generous kindness for you and me, are here spread out! | | Uncategorized | |
| When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. | | Uncategorized | |
| When one is twenty yes, but at forty-seven, Venus may rise from the sea, and I for one should hardly put on my spectacles to have a look | | Uncategorized | |
| When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment. | | Uncategorized | |
| When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. | | Uncategorized | |
| Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. | | Uncategorized | |
