Jerome K. Jerome

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

If you want to get what you want give up being right.

Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.