He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
From Charles Caleb Colton
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Mystery is not profoundness.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
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