The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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