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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.