“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“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Friendship“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
Knowledge“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“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
Happiness“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Love“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
Great“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
Great“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
Truth“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
Religion“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
Alone“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
God“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
Life“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”
Best“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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”
Nature“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Architecture“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Nature“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship