“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”
Success“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Business“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”
Success“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Truth“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
Money“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
Good“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
Marriage“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”
Courage“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
Love“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
Good“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
Friendship“The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.”
Love“So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
Love“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
Gardening“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”
Marriage“The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Good“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
Business“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Life“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”
Alone“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.”
Love“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
Best“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
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