Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.