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.
A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accomp...
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
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.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
most men know what they hate few what they love
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