It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Votes: 10
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. Votes: 1
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Votes: 0
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. Votes: 0
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. Votes: 0
No man was ever great by imitation. Votes: 0
Love is only one of many passions. Votes: 0
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Votes: 0
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. Votes: 0
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. Votes: 0
To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. Votes: 0
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. Votes: 0
Avarice is always poor. Votes: 0
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me. Votes: 0
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Votes: 0
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. Votes: 0
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. Votes: 0
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. Votes: 0
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Votes: 0
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Votes: 0
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. Votes: 0
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. Votes: 0
From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept. Votes: 0
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. Votes: 0
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. Votes: 0
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Votes: 0
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. Votes: 0
Language is the dress of thought. Votes: 0
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. Votes: 0
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. Votes: 0
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. Votes: 0
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Votes: 0
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. Votes: 0
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. Votes: 0
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. Votes: 0
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Votes: 0
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. Votes: 0
Round numbers are always false. Votes: 0
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Votes: 0
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. Votes: 0
Exercise is labor without weariness. Votes: 0
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Votes: 0
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation. Votes: 0
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. Votes: 0
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. Votes: 0
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us Votes: 0
The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence Votes: 0
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring Votes: 0
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. Votes: 0
Security will produce danger. Votes: 0
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Votes: 0
Money confounds subordination. Votes: 0
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. Votes: 0
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry. Votes: 0
The synonyme of usury is ruin. Votes: 0
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. Votes: 0
A vow is a snare for sin Votes: 0
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. Votes: 0
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. Votes: 0
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. Votes: 0
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. Votes: 0
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. Votes: 0
All envy is proportionate to desire. Votes: 0
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. Votes: 0
All history was at first oral. Votes: 0
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed. Votes: 0
Apologies are seldom of any use. Votes: 0
Applause abates diligence. Votes: 0
Art hath an enemy called ignorance. Votes: 0
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. Votes: 0
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. Votes: 0
By writing, you learn to write. Votes: 0
Celestial wisdom calms the mind. Votes: 0
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. Votes: 0
Curiosity is the thirst of the soul. Votes: 0
Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations. Votes: 0
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear. Votes: 0
Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist. Votes: 0
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts. Votes: 0
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art. Votes: 0
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. Votes: 0
For who is pleased with himself. Votes: 0
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? Votes: 0
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. Votes: 0
Gratitude is a species of justice. Votes: 0
Grief is a species of idleness. Votes: 0
Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty. Votes: 0
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Votes: 0
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. Votes: 0
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. Votes: 0
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. Votes: 0
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason. Votes: 0
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. Votes: 0
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Votes: 0
His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee. Votes: 0
Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. Votes: 0
Hunger is never delicate. Votes: 0
I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. Votes: 0
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober. Votes: 0
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. Votes: 0
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. Votes: 0
In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve. Votes: 0
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. Votes: 0
In the motive lies the good or ill. Votes: 0
Indolence is the devil's cushion. Votes: 0
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man. Votes: 0
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful. Votes: 0
Knock the 't' off the 'can't.' Votes: 0
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. Votes: 0
Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. Votes: 0
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving. Votes: 0
Life protracted is protracted woe. Votes: 0
Misery and shame are nearly allied. Votes: 0
Most men are unwilling to be taught. Votes: 0
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Votes: 0
Never mind the use--do it! Votes: 0
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. Votes: 0
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. Votes: 0
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. Votes: 0
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. Votes: 0
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. Votes: 0
Occupation alone is happiness. Votes: 0
Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. Votes: 0
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. Votes: 0
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. Votes: 0
Pleasure itself is not a vice Votes: 0
Poetry cannot be translation Votes: 0
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself Votes: 0
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. Votes: 0
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. Votes: 0
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure. Votes: 0
Self-love is a busy prompter. Votes: 0
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. Votes: 0
Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside. Votes: 0
Social sorrow loses half its pain. Votes: 0
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry. Votes: 0
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. Votes: 0
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. Votes: 0
The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity. Votes: 0
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. Votes: 0
The joy of life is variety. Votes: 0
The process is the reality. Votes: 0
The triumph of hope over experience. Votes: 0
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. Votes: 0
There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by. Votes: 0
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it. Votes: 0
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem. Votes: 0
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. Votes: 0
They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present. Votes: 0
Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little Votes: 0
To a poet nothing can be useless. Votes: 0
To be of no Church is dangerous. Votes: 0
To build is to be robbed. Votes: 0
To buried merit rise the tardy bust. Votes: 0
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. Votes: 0
To make dictionaries is dull work. Votes: 0
Truth allows no choice. Votes: 0
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought. Votes: 0
Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other. Votes: 0
Virtue is too often merely local. Votes: 0
Was ever poet so trusted before? Votes: 0
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him. Votes: 0
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more. Votes: 0
What is easy is seldom excellent. Votes: 0
What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please. Votes: 0
Whatever you have spend less. Votes: 0
Words are but the signs of ideas. Votes: 0
Wretched un-idea'd girls. Votes: 0