That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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• Disobedience is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
• Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
• All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the reproach of falsehood.
• He has, indeed, done it very well; but it is a foolish thing well done.