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

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

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

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

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

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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.

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.