To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. |
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. |
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient |
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. |
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. |
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model |
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. |
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher |
Virtue rejects a mean admirer: you must come to her with open purse |
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor |
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. |
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. |
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. |
We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality |
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. |