Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Affection will burn cheerily when the white flame of love is flickered out. Affection is a fire that can be fed from day to day and be piled up ever higher as the wintry years draw nigh.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

It is in our faults and failings not in our virtues that we touch each other and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

A cats got her own opinion of human beings. She dont say much but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet.

Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone

They dogs never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.