The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!

All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.