Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. |
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. |
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor. |
Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect our will. They advance in combination, and successively exercise a secret empire over us, so that, without our perceiving it, they become a great part of all our actions. |
Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better. |
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. |
Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite. |
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding |
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. |
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. |
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another. |
Costs merely register competing attractions. |
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. |
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed |
Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. |