John Churton Collins Quotes

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.