“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
Truth“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 greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
Truth“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
Knowledge“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“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Knowledge“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
Friendship“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Friendship“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
Religion“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
Men“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“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
Wisdom“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“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“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
Men“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“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.”
Truth“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
Fear“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
Age“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
War“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
Success