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

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

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

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

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

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

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

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

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

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 lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

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