Emotions and Feelings

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words— Wait and Hope .

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words— Wait and Hope .

It isn’t what a man has that constitutes wealth. No—it is to be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

One advantage resulting from virtuous actions is that they elevate the mind and dispose it to attempt others more virtuous still.

Virtue would not go nearly so far if vanity did not keep her company.

Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.

All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one’s vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.