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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... →
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.
Mystery is not profoundness.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians... →
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound... →
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... →
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.