“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”
“I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
“And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.”
“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.”
“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”
“Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”
“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
“A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.”
“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”
“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”
“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”
“At every word a reputation dies.”
“On wrongs swift vengeance waits.”
“Die and endow a college or a cat.”
“Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?”
“All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.”
“Most women have no characters at all.”
“To err is human, to forgive is divine.”
“Health consists with temperance alone.”
“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”
“Fools admire, but men of sense approve.”
“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”
“Most authors steal their works, or buy.”
“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
“Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.”
“Act well your part; there all honor lies.”