 If misery loves company, misery has company enough. |
| If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. |
| The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Topics: Best Friend |
| Every people have gods to suit their circumstances. |
| There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor. |
| There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. |
| Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. |
| As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. |
| Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. |
| I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. |
| Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. |
| What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. |
| I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. |
| What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? |
| Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. |
| It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. |
| This world is but a canvas to our imagination. |
| Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. |
| The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. |
| It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. |
