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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

Round numbers are always false.

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.