Post #2523

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
—William Penn

Post #2522

To fear the worst, oft cures the worst.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2521

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2520

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2519

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.
—Fisher Ames

Post #2518

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Post #2517

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
—James Russell Lowell

Post #2516

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater

Post #2515

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
—Cicero

Post #2514

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Post #2513

Never let man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
—Robert Southey

Post #2512

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
—Pythagoras

Post #2511

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.
—Orville Dewey

Post #2510

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2509

Good-humor is always a success.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater

Post #2508

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
—William Shakespeare

Post #2507

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.
—Sir Roger L'Estrange

Post #2506

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
—Propertius

Post #2505

To pooh-pooh what we are never likely to possess is wonderfully easy. The confirmed celibate is loudest in his denunciations of matrimony. In Aesop, it is the tailless fox that advocates the disuse of tails. It is the grapes we cannot reach that we call sour.
—Aeneas Sage

Post #2504

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

—Hosea Ballou