“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Knowledge“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“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Knowledge“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.”
Truth“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“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
Alone“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“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
Religion“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“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“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“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”
Happiness“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Friendship“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”
Happiness“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
Best“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
Patience“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“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“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“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“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“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
Wisdom