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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent conc...   Intelligence
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.  
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.  
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too,...  
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, continge...  
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings ...  
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterit...  
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must inc...  
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physici...  
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fab...  
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greates...  
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.   Love
Friendship, of itself a holy tie,Is made more sacred by adversity.  
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life,...  
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and tr...  
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, wi...  
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himsel...  
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he wh...  
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.  
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.  
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the bri...  
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good,...  
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to vent...  
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee s...  
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have ...  
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what...  
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and the...  
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has ...  
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves t...  
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Lif...  
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predomi...  
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they ...  
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinne...   Marriage
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they sh...  
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it;...   Religion
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius ...  
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which ever...   Time
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good b...  
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.  
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity h...  
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we ...  
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its rea...  
Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; b...  
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength  
Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave i...  
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeath...  
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.  
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparen...  
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may n...  
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they ar...  
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical ...  
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. T...  
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.  
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living...  
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation...  
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by...  
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by h...  
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.  
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks ...  
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their a...  
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own cou...  
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more l...  
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who ...  
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it...  
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough...  
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known ...  
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.  
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.  
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.  
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know th...  
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despis...  
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to th...  
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and want...  
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have do...  
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.