If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Books are a finer world within the world.

Books are a finer world within the world.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.