Read in order to live. |
Read in order to live. |
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. |
Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one |
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich /that one word contradicts everything you can say against him. |
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. |
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim |
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love |
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go. |
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts |
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts |
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. |
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear |
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. |
There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. |