Quotes about Sentiment

He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represented stories

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.

I will venture to say, that in no writings whatever can be found more bark and steel for the mind, if I may use the expression; more that can brace and invigorate every manly and noble sentiment. No. 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicism, as the Sun of Revelation is brighter than the twilight of Pagan philosophy.

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Nostalgia: How long's that been around?

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

If love as a sentiment was the discovery of the medieval poets, love as a moral emotion might be called that of the eighteenth-century philosophers, who, for all their celebration of free unions and fatal passions, were really on the side of the angels, were fighting the battle of the spiritual against the sensual, of conscience against appetite.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.