Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people |
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary. |
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance |
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance |
Greek, Sir, . . . is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can. |
Grief is a species of idleness. |
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great |
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling. |
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. |
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty |
He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others |
He loved the sight of fine forest trees however, and detested Brighthelmstone Downs, "because it was a country so truly desolate (he said), that if one had a mind to hang one's self for desperation at being obliged to live there, it would be difficul |
He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. |
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper. |
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber |