The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it.
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish.
Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
Misery loves company.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit.
Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
He that is down need fear no fall.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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