“The post of honor is a private station.”
“Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.”
“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”
“Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.”
“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”
“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”
“What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.”
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...”
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.”
“That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not Nonsense.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.”
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
“We are growing serious, and, Let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.”
“'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.”
“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
“We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.”
“Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.”
“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”
“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.”
“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.”
“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”
“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”
“An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.”
“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.”