It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Few people do business well who do nothing else
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves. . . . Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.
May the simple things be amazing on the journey of your life.
Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
Ignorance is kind of bliss.