Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure there is no sterner...
Truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Society is now one polished horde formed of two mighty tries the Bores and...
There's naught no doubt so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
I have no consistency except in politics and that probably arises from my...
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
I love not man the less but Nature more.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.