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 | "True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom
known until it be lost." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give
somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was
diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which
was recondite." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are
half dead before we understand our disorder, And half cured when we
do." | |
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Found in the topic Disease.
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| "Liberty will not descend to a people; A people must raise themselves
to liberty; it is A blessing that must be earned before it can be
enjoyed." | |
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Found in the topic Liberty.
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| "Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are
foolish." | |
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Found in the topic Sick.
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| "Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his Banker, but his
drafts are seldom honored since there is often a heavy balance against him,
because he draws largely on a small capital and is not yet in
possession." | |
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Found in the topic Hope.
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| "Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; And yield with
graciousness, or oppose with firmness." | |
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Found in the topic Cause.
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| "It is far more easy to acquire fortune like a knave than to expend
it like a gentleman." | |
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Found in the topic Spending.
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| "He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad
will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, And time are three
things that never stand still." | |
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Found in the topic Bad.
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| "Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with
truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly
wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that
are sometimes right." | |
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Found in the topic False.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "There is this paradox in pride ? it makes some men ridiculous, but
prevents others from becoming so." | |
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Found in the topic Pride.
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| "Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than
thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair." | |
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Found in the topic Ennui.
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| "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is
Prejudice, And her constant companion is Humility." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to
others, but hides us from ourselves. We injure our own cause in the
opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it." | |
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Found in the topic Anger.
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| "Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they
should see twice as much as they say." | |
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Found in the topic Prudent.
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| "To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know
its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power
are real, its pleasures imaginary." | |
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Found in the topic Power.
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| "We often pretend to fear what we really despise, And more often
despise what we really fear." | |
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Found in the topic Selfishness.
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| "Imitation is the sincerest flattery." | |
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Found in the topic Imitation.
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