 The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. |
| The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. |
| Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. |
| Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. |
| Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. |
| He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. |
| 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. Topics: Death |
| To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us. |
| Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. |
| Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. |
| War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. |
| There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. |
