Wisdom Quotes

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

"Reason has warned me again and again that you are perilous to my peace."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"I felt that I was not sufficiently impressed with the awfulness of his condition"

"The past cannot be changed; the future is yet in your power"

"I have been considering whether the disappointment is altogether a disappointment"

"There is no remedy for the past but to make it useful"

"I will have no man in my boat who is not afraid of a whale"

"Some sort of entity or intelligence must surely dwell within that monstrous form"

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"I am dying of ennui. Perhaps you know the cure for it, Mr. Gray."

"The great secret of life is not to do what one wishes, but to will what one does."

"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

"It does not follow that a man must be disagreeable merely because his manners are not conciliating."

"The subject is quite delicate and I wish not to impute blame."

"Vanity and pride are different things."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed"

"I would as soon think of defying the law of gravitation"

"Reason I have, and shall use it"

"But how should I be supposed to know, what would make you happy?"

"Life is too short to take in malice or resentment."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"In losing everything, I found what truly mattered."

"If you remember the words of madness you will understand this man"

"The good of tomorrow is brought to pass by the acts of today"

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."