When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is hu...
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Everyone lives by selling something.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The essence of love is kindness.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers.
I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I...
A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.