Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.
Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.
A man is saved only by faith. . . only by faith.