Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. |
Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see, Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltiness agree |
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall |
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall |
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. |
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. |
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after |
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. |
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. |
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye
I see the Lords of human kind pass by. |
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by. |
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. |
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! |
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their |
Silence is become his mother tongue. |