To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which every enterprise and labor tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.

The only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

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