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.
Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
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.
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
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.
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 hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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...
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
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...
If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
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