Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy, and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat, and drunk, and lived in social intercourse with him.
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