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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
Hope is the mother of faith.
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.