Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to... →
Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing... →
Paul Auster
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
J. L. Austin
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the... →
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects... →
Saint Teresa of Avila
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may... →