Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
From Samuel Johnson
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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