“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
Success“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
Religion“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
Success“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“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
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“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“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
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“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“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
Truth“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Marriage“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“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“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“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“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“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
Best“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
Religion“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
War