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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the... →
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave... →
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write... →
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor... →