Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.[Никогда с женщинами не говорите о своих добродетелях. Пусть они сами поймут.]
Much less is it adviseable for a Person to go thither who has no other Quality to recommend him but his Birth. In Europe it has indeed its Value, but it is a Commodity that cannot be carried to a worse Market than to that of America, where People do not enquire concerning a Stranger, What is he? but What can he do?
It’s not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way.
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I don’t worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.
Every nation, every individual, has unpleasant and even dangerous qualities.[Unangenehme, ja gefährliche Eigenschaften hat jede Nation, jeder Mensch.]
Come, give us a taste of your quality.
A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.
