Sentiment quotes

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.