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On Age and Aging
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. |
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On
Ambition
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offences; so climbing is
performed in the same position with creeping. |
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On
Belief
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be
overcome. |
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On
Charity
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can
be in want. |
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On
Conversation
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything, which
any of the company wish had been left unsaid. |
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On
Disease
We are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same. |
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On
Enemies
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. |
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On
Friends and Friendship
Your motions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with
his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I
would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned
to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who
displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a
jail. |
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On
Heaven
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told
expressly. |
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On Life and Living
May you live all the days of your life. |
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On
Men
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. |
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On
Optimism
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever
shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. |
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On
Power
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the
innocent. |
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On
Reason
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. |
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On
Shame
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not
ashamed. |
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On
Understanding
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful
and profound is couched underneath. |
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On
Winners and Winning
Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the
values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth, vision is the art
of seeing things invisible. |
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