Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Truth allows no choice.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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