A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation |
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write |
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. |
A tree might be a show in Scotland as a horse in Venice |
A vow is a snare for sin |
A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety. |
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him |
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. |
A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion |
About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. |
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly thinks right. |
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. |
Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else |
Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end |
Actions are visible, though motives are secret |