It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

You never know what you can do till you try.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.