I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.
I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.
He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.
Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.
Whatever you are by nature keep to it never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than noth...
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.
He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.