Quotes
- We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a ve...
- It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and...
- Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens t...
- A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but fro...
- If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend...
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he...
- Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentiall...
- What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a...
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein t...
- If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, e...
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which...
- Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime ...
- The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,...
- Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our j...
- Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and go...
- He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, shoul...
- There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so us...
- The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leag...
- Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens t...
- From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments ...
- To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is ...
- I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which dis...
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it pre...