“The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others. ”
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“The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others. ”
“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many. ”
“Health is better than wealth”
“Snug as a bug in a rug”
“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ”
“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles”
“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband”
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband”
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ”
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever”
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know ”
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new ”
“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so”
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens ”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness ”
“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants ”
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books”