We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity |
We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them. |
We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them. |
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. |
We should only be astonished at still being able to be astonished. |
We sometimes complain of the levity of our friends to justify our own by anticipation. |
We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others. |
We speak little if not egged on by vanity |
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. |
We well know that it is bad taste to talk of our wives; but we do not so well know that it is the same to speak of ourselves. |
We were in the cemetery in Limerick with the CBS crew, and it is an ancient cemetery that my mother's family was buried in, a graveyard, and it's so bad that graves are collapsing, the tombstones are collapsing, and all along you see handles from coffins, and bones. |
We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others |
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. |
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them |
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. |