Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.