“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 often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
Fear“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 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“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
Men“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
War“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
Patience“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
Knowledge“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”
Happiness“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
Wisdom“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
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“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“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Knowledge“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
Men“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“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“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Marriage“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
Religion“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“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