A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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