most men know what they hate few what they love
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a s...
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.
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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...
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.
A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
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