The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
— Jean Paul

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
— Richard Bach

All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that if you make them happy new, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
— Sydney Smith

The love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many.
— Washington Allston

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place
— H. L. Mencken

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
— Francis Bacon

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It wasn’t reasoned into him, and it cannot be reasoned out.
— Sydney Smith

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
— John Locke

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
— Norman Cousins

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
— Friedrich Schiller

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
— James Cash Penney

There is a great difference between him who is ashamed before his own self and him who is only ashamed before others.
— The Talmud