He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.