Hunger is the best pickle. |
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has ? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances. |
I am lord of myself, accountable to none |
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that he is even infinitely above it. |
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. |
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong |
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong |
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. |
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. |
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. |
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead. |
I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace. |
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, Obeying husbands, or commanding wives |
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. |
I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be |