The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

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.