“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
Men“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
Knowledge“Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.”
Knowledge“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
Success“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”
Happiness“The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”
Society“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”
Health“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
Patience“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
Alone“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.”
Men“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.”
Happiness“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
Truth“Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.”
Change“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
Best“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
War“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Knowledge“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
Success“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Friendship“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
Best“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
Men