Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;To husband out li...
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.