Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
From Samuel Johnson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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