“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“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
Travel“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“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
Art“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
Alone“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
Travel“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
Money“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
Business“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
Death“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
Design“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“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“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”
Power“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
Good“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“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
Trust“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
Great“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.”
Experience“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 your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
Great“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”
Good“Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”
Imagination