We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
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...
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.
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.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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.
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest...
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
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.
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