Whatever you have spend less.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman – repose in energy.
A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they’re about to do and thinks it still matters.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
