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.
most men know what they hate few what they love
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
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...
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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.
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