1. “A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.”
2. “Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.”
3. “Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.”
4. “Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
5. “Trample not on the ruins of a man.”
6. “The true poet dreams being awake.”
7. “A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.”
8. “The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.”
9. “Man is gaming animal.”
10. “Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.”
11. “The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.”
12. “My motto is: Contended with little, yet wishing for more.”
13. “The drinking man is never les himself than during his sober intervals.”
14. “The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
15. “Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.”
16. “Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
17. “No one ever regarded he first of January with indifference.”
18. “I could never hate anyone I knew.”
19. “We encourage one another in mediocrity.”
20. “Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.”
21. “Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.”
22. “My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.”
23. “We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.”
24. “The vices of some men are magnificent.”
25. “Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.”
26. “He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
27. “In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.”
28. “Mother’s love grows by giving.”
29. “It is good to love the unknown.”
30. “Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.”
