“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
Wisdom“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
Fear“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
Religion“Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.”
Future“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
Knowledge“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
Success“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
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“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
Religion“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
Patience“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“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
Wisdom“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
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“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“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“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“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.”
Love“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
Age“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
Success