“We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull”
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“We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull”
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”
“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude ”
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions”
“I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species”
“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. ”
“There is no defense against criticism except obscurity”
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week”
“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense”
“Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud”
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. ”
“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body”
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world”
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes”
“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass”
“Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, old age is slow in both”
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature”
“A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy”