“Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.”

If you want to do something, do it!

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

No man has perpetual good fortune.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

When you’ve lost your trousers – you’re in the airline business.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The nature of the world is inherently obvious