People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy |
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. |
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. |
So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? |
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. |
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. |
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. |
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. |
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. |
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse |
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current |
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current |
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force. |
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain |
When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet. |