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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.

no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.

Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less.

What gained we, little moth? Thy ashes, Thy one brief parting pang may show: And withering thoughts for soul that dashes, From deep to deep, are but a death more slow.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.

If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.