The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Nothing vivifies and nothing kills like the emotions.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.