“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
Happiness“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“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
Happiness“Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.”
Change“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.”
Great“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“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“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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Nature“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”
Power“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”
Equality“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
Art“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Hope“The future is purchased by the present.”
Future“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
Art“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
Music“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
Courage“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.”
Experience“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
Friendship“No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.”
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“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.”
Truth