| Quotes |
Topic |
| Letters | Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. |
| Light | More light! |
| Light | Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. |
| Limitations | To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. |
| Linguists | He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. |
| Literature | The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. |
| Love | We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. |
| Lying | When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. |
| Mammon | Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight. |
| Manners | The society of women is the element of good manners. |
| Nature | Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. |
| Nobility | A noble soul alone can noble souls attract, And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. |
| Obligation | It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. |
| Ocean | The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never. |
| Opportunity | Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. |
| Oratory | Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. |
| Oratory | With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. |
| Originality | All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. |
| Mercy | Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. |
| Poetry | It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. |
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