 It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. |
| A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. |
| By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. |
| 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. Topics: Courage |
| Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. |
| Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. |
| When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. |
| It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. |
| Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. |
| 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. |
| The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. |
| It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. |
| I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. |
| Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. |
| Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. |
| Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. |
| Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. |
| It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. |
| When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. |
| Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. |
