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.

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame

most men know what they hate few what they love

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

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.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

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.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

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. The former would seem most necessary for the camp the latter for the council but to constitute a great man both are necessary.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

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

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

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

The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.

Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

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.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Mystery is not profoundness.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.

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

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.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.

A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.

Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.