We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming...
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit either in business or reputation im...
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affec...
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
Reason with most people means their own opinions.
It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
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