“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
Friendship“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.”
Truth“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“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“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
Knowledge“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“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
Wisdom“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
Men“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
Fear“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
Success“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“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
Age“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
Truth“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“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“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
Patience“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
Religion“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
Best“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
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“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