“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
Friendship“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”
Morning“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
Friendship“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
Great“The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.”
Dreams“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.”
Truth“Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.”
Respect“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.”
Experience“Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.”
Great“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
Great“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”
Good“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Wisdom“No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.”
Money“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.”
Smile“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”
Time“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
Art“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
Knowledge“The future is purchased by the present.”
Future“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
Society“No man was ever great by imitation.”
Great“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.”
Great“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
Friendship