Love & Life Sayings

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,

The greatest proof of love is to give all, and to lose all.

The human race is a monotonous affair. What one does, the other does, and what one suffers, the other suffers.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I am still the way I was in Florence: I do not think of death, nor of eating, nor of drinking.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries—for heavy ones they cannot.

A musician is a magician, who, by the power of his art, can turn a heart of stone into a heart of gold.

I love my wife, and she loves me, and that is all that matters.

I have never chosen a subject from the antique, but always from nature.

I always fear that I shall be accused of extravagance.

I have been in an agony of mind for some days past, and have at length determined to open my heart to you.

The sea is vast and full of wonders.

The earth is not round as a ball, but pear-shaped.

The natives of New Holland may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans.