We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
The worst deluded are the self – deluded.
The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever impostors will find impudence.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented.
One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Books are embalmed minds.
