No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Bachelors have consciences married men have wives.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which...
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless and knowledge without...
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we...
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid...
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of...
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but...
What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which...
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much...
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and...
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always...
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by...
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can...
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much...
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it...
No man was ever great by imitation.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human...
A am a great friend of public amusements they keep people from vice.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge...
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not...
Like a lot of you I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.
