A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good |
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. |
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion |
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected |
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. |
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see |
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. |
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit |
A man will turn over half a library to make one book |
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one |
A merchant's desire is not of glory, but of gain; not of public wealth, but of private emolument; he is, therefore, rarely to be consulted about war and peace, or any designs of wide extent and distant consequence |
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. |
A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good |
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest |
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. |