| Quotes |
Topic |
| Eye | Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. |
| Finance and Economics | Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. |
| Finance and Economics | It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. |
| Flattery | Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. |
| Fraud | The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence. |
| Friends | Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. |
| Friendship | True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. |
| Friendship | True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. |
| Friendship | Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. |
| Friendship | True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton. |
| Gossip | None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. |
| Imitation | Imitation is the sincerest flattery. |
| Integrity | No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. |
| Law | Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. |
| Loneliness and Solitude | 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. |
| Love | 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. |
| Merit | Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. |
| Miscellaneous | Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. |
| Miscellaneous | Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. |
| Miscellaneous | When you have nothing to say, say nothing. |
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