(11 quotes found)
“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends”
John Churton Collins
“Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.”
“If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.”
“Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody”
“To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery”
“Too nicely, Jonson knew the critic's part; nature in him was almost lost in Art”
“Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers”
“A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.”
“Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.”
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.”
