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 | "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good." | |
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Found in the topic Measure.
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| "Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from
its use alone." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle
deliberation how it shall be spent." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "Against the head which innocence secures, Insidious malice aims her
dart in vain; Turned backwards by the powerful breath of heaven." | |
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Found in the topic Innocent.
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| "The world, in its best state, is nothing more than a larger assembly
of beings, combining to counterfeit happiness which they do not
feel." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "All theory is against the freedom of the will, All experience for
it." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "All travel has its advantages. If the traveler visits Better
countries, he may learn to improve his own; and if fortune carries him to
worse, he may learn to enjoy his own." | |
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Found in the topic Travel.
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| "Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the
first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to
ambition." | |
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Found in the topic Avarice.
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| "Excellence, in any department, can only be attained by the labor of
a lifetime. It is not purchased at a lesser price." | |
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Found in the topic Labor.
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| "Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first
be kindled by some external agent, But which will afterwards propagate
itself." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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| "Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may
be increased by short intermissions." | |
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Found in the topic Absent.
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| "This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, Slow rises worth by
poverty depressed." | |
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Found in the topic Potential.
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| "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill." | |
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Found in the topic Persecution.
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| "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do
anything." | |
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Found in the topic Charity.
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| "I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of
alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the
truth." | |
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Found in the topic Sick.
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| "But Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman
ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!" | |
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Found in the topic Scorn.
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| "Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to
be a hero must drink brandy." | |
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Found in the topic Alcohol.
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| "Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they
cannot bear leveling up to themselves." | |
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Found in the topic Epithet.
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| "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." | |
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Found in the topic Patriotism.
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| "Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage
which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." | |
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Found in the topic Strike.
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