If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in ...
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The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless effo...
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
