He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest...
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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.
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.
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.
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...
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.
Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.
If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.
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.
Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
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