(199 quotes found)
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity”
“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility”
“Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.”
“If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition”
“To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us”
“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence”
“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”