Emotions and Feelings

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Nothing is so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth!

Nothing is so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth!

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Integrity which has been attacked by no temptation can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. . . . But genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The austere principles of tact tell the tongue to keep away from the aching thought.

To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

The scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight