If not by fair means, then by foul – if not of your consent, then by brute force![Also known as:]Nothing made by brute force lasts.
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
If a man love the labour of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.
Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
I often think the happiest consequences seem to flow when a gentleman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.
I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I’m not to have my rum now I’m a poor old hulk on a lee shore.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
