- He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
- Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
- One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
- The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
- Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
- There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
- When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
- We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
- Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
- Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
- Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
- From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
- Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Success Life Quotes 