“We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.”
Happiness“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
Alone“We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.”
Happiness“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”
Great“Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.”
Great“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”
Alone“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”
Money“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.”
Happiness“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Wisdom“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
Knowledge“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
Great“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
Death“You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.”
Politics“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
Music“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
Good“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
Money“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”
Time“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
Great“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
Happiness“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
Marriage“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.”
Beauty“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
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