Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music to create harmony must investigate discord.
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has...
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth it is necessary that...
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that...
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes...
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries he...
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A...
A wise man will make haste to forgive because he knows the true value of...
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties...
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Let me smile with the wise and feed with the rich.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute...
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...
Of all noises I think music is the least disagreeable.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the...
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and... the unhappiest of all...
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay you do...
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Bachelors have consciences married men have wives.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which...
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless and knowledge without...
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we...
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid...
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of...
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but...
What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which...
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much...
