Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. |
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. |
Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends? |
Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first |
Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable. |
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. |
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. |
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. |
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. |
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, |
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. |