Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
From Charles Caleb Colton
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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