Riches are for spending.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his work and in that work he does what he wants to do.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
