“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
Patience“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
Wisdom“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
Patience“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
Religion“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
Alone“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
Men“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
Alone“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
War“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
Best“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“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
Men“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
Fear“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.”
Death“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Friendship“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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.”
Courage“There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.”
Best“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
Friendship“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Knowledge“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
Best“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