“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Marriage“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“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Marriage“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
Best“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
Men“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
Knowledge“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
Religion“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Friendship“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
Alone“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
Wisdom“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“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“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”
Politics“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
Friendship“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“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”
Happiness“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Knowledge“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
Men“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
Success“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“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“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