Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
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.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.