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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as... →
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest... →
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may... →
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