(286 quotes found)
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity”
“Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.”
“Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”
“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”
“Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.”
“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.”
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility”
“Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength”
“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
