“Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.”
“The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.”
“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.”
“Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”
“Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!”
“And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.”
“Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”
“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”
“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
“Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.”
“Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?”
“The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.”
“Forced from home and all its pleasures Afric's coast I left forlorn, To increase a stranger's treasures O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold; But, though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold.”
“Remorse begets reform.”
“A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.”
“The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.”
“No one was ever scolded out of their sins.”
“God made the country and man made the town.”
“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
“A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.”
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”
“The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.”
“Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.”
“Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.”
“No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.”
“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
“I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?”
“O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”