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...
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
Mystery is not profoundness.
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.
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.
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
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.
Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
most men know what they hate few what they love
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...
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
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