No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes
Kelty
Small courtesies, small kindnesses, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great
Washington Irving
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles
Elizabeth Charles
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones and charms brutes. It is
Brooks Atkinson
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to
Thomas Jefferson
Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result
Samuel Butler
Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful
William Hazlitt
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of