“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.