“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.”
Birthday“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Knowledge“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.”
Birthday“Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.”
Great“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
Happiness“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Hope“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.”
Great“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
Art“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“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“The future is purchased by the present.”
Future“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
Truth“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
Money“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.”
Government“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
Marriage“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
Friendship“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.”
Experience“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Knowledge“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.”
Smile“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Nature“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“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
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