Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does...

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.