“Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.”
“All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.”
“There are charms made only for distance admiration.”
“Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.”
“Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.”
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
“There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.”
“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
“Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.”
“Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.”
“If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?”
“Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.”
“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”
“Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.”
“He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.”
“Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.”
“Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.”
“Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.”
“Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.”
“No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.”
“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
“I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.”
“Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.”
“We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.”
“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
“When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.”
“The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.”