“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Truth“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Good“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Truth“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
Health“Wine is bottled poetry.”
Poetry“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
Marriage“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“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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
Age“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Great“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
Good“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.”
Change“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
Best“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Business“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”
Good“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
Life“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
Business“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
Gardening“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”
Marriage“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
Great“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
Time“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
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