“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
Truth“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Truth“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
Future“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Death“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Friendship“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”
Business“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
Happiness“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
Great“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
Happiness“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
Age“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
Hope“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Nature“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”
Jealousy“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Death“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Love