It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. |
It's a damned long, boggy, dirty, dangerous way. |
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law |
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning |
Life at the greatest and best is but a forward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. |
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. |
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. |
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement |
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. |
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long |
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. |
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. |
O Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain |
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest |
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting |