Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. |
Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below? |
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune. |
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. |
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. |
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. |
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. |
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. |
The beggar wears all colors fearing none. |
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident |
The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident |
The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident |
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend |
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. |
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen |