“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
Success“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
Success“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“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“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“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“True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Friendship“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Marriage“Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.”
Friendship“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“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
Friendship“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
Patience“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
Best“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“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“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“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.”
Death“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
Truth“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“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“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.”
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