“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
Death“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”
Equality“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
Death“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Hope“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
Music“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.”
Great“The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Future“In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”
Truth“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
Good“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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
Great“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”
Art“You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.”
Money“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”
Power“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“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“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
Trust“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“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“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.”
Experience“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
Society“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
Happiness