“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“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“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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
Happiness“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Nature“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“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
Friendship“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”
Equality“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Wisdom“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”
Best“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”
Morning“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
Marriage“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
Imagination“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
Power“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“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“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
Society“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”
Music“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“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
Money“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
Truth“No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.”
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