Brilliancy Quotes

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean`s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man`s candle by one`s own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.