Observation is an old man's me...

Observation is an old man's memory.

There were many times my pants...

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

We are so fond on one another ...

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Where I am not understood, it ...

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

I never saw, heard, nor read, ...

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

It is impossible that anything...

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Positiveness is a good quality...

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Bachelor's fare: bread and che...

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

If we take an examination of w...

If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

In all I wish, how happy shoul...

In all I wish, how happy should I be,
Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Wise people are never less alo...

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

For poetry, he's past his prim...

For poetry, he's past his prime,
He takes an hour to find a rhyme;
His fire is out, his wit decayed,
His fancy sunk, his muse a jade.
I'd have him throw away his pen,
But there's no talking to some men.

Party is the madness of many f...

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

For in that universal call,

For in that universal call,
Few bankers will to heaven be mounters;
They'll cry, 'Ye shops, upon us fall!
Conceal and cover us, ye counters!
When other hands the scales shall hold,
And they, in men's and angels' sight
Produced with all their bills and gold,
'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'

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Everybody wants to live foreve...

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

For the rest, whatever we have...

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The lack of belief is a defect...

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

hoever wishes to win in this g...

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

A carpenter is known by his ch...

A carpenter is known by his chips.

The bulk of mankind is as well...

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.