All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance |
Allegories drawn to great length will always break |
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? |
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those we cannot resemble |
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we can not resemble |
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep |
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other |
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. |
Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehood which interests dictates and credulity encourages |
Among those who have endeavoured to promote learning and rectify judgment, it has long been customary to complain of the abuse of words, which are often admitted to signify things so different that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles |
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. |
An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out |
And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. |
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef |
Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep / But hear his death, ye blockheads! hear and sleep. |