“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
Death“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“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
Death“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”
Morning“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”
Success“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
Knowledge“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”
Home“No man was ever great by imitation.”
Great“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“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
Friendship“To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
Wisdom“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”
Power“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Hope“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.”
Great“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
Great“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Knowledge“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
Best“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“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
Alone“Exercise is labor without weariness.”
Fitness“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
Music“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”
Equality