If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

The desire to write grows with writing.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Humility is truth.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

To know nothing is the happiest life.