“Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.”
“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”
“The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
“Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.”
“Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.”
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.”
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.”
“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”
“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
“We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.”
“If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.”
“So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”
“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”
“He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.”
“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.”
“I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.”
“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”