The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.