Category: Quote of the Day

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. Discuss

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Discuss

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. Discuss

Time has laid his healing hand upon the wound when we can look back upon the pain we once fainted under and no bitterness or despair rises in our hearts. Discuss

If a man’s character is to be abused … there’s nobody like a relation to do the business. Discuss

I have heard men talk of the blessings of freedom, … but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it. Discuss

It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. Discuss

See them clamber, these nimble apes! … Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne—and ofttimes also the throne on filth. Discuss

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. Discuss

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. Discuss