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.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.