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Is made more sacred by adversity.

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

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it, for when we fail, our pride supports, when we succeed, it betrays us.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

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.