Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.