We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
From Joseph Addison
The woman that deliberates is lost.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
6 perspectives
5 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives