“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
