No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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