| Quotes |
Topic |
| Adversity | Is made more sacred by adversity. |
| Adversity | Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. |
| Advice | To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. |
| Advice | We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. |
| Advice | As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. |
| Advice | To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us. |
| All About Love | Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. |
| Appearance | Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. |
| Applause | Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. |
| Authorship | That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. |
| Bigotry | Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. |
| Charity | Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. |
| Choice | Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. |
| Courage | 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. |
| Courage | Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. |
| Custom | The old ways are the safest and surest ways. |
| Immortality | 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. |
| Detail | Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. |
| Disease | It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. |
| Existence | Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. |
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