You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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?
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.