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.
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.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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...
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
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.
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
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...
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
most men know what they hate few what they love
True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.