My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.
My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Trample not on the ruins of a man.
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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