Mystery is not profoundness.
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 are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
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.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
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
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.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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 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.
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
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.
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