The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.
No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
The Bassbone is just what I have been looking for. . . I can maintain the integrity of two instruments on stage or in the studio with control over the balance and keep my high standards for my low notes!
To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way.
You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.