Nature hates calculators.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
Sir, I have no objection to a man’s drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
