To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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 a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse he may learn to enjoy it.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse he may learn to enjoy it.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
A wise man will make haste to forgive because he knows the true value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
A wise man will make haste to forgive because he knows the true value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties passing from one step of success to another forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties passing from one step of success to another forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Let me smile with the wise and feed with the rich.
Let me smile with the wise and feed with the rich.