It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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