Whatever you have spend less.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles… but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief -a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man’s crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
Broken, like a mosaic, I am pieced together. I am still a piece of art, though I may not be fully appreciated by all, the ones that see the beauty, are the ones who have the understanding; gained through experience, that to break, doesn’t mean to give up.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
