Josh Billings
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.