Business is the salt of life.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Theres much more stupidity than there is malice in the world.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
