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.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

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.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.