“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
Good“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“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
Good“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
Good“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
Good“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
Politics“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”
Success“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.”
Good“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
Life“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
Success“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
Money“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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Inspirational“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Business“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Truth“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
Marriage“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
Good“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“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
Love“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”
Nature“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“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
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