The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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...
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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 nothin...
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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 p...
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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