It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
The surest poison is time.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
You. Not wanting me. Was the beginning of me wanting myself. Thank you.
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
