Tenderness is a virtue.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Silence is become his mother tongue.
Those who think must govern those that toil.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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