Whatever you have spend less.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.
A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
