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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Trees are your best antiques.

Trees are your best antiques.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as...

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

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

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.

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...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

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.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

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...

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

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

Trees are your best antiques

Trees are your best antiques

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...