A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means |
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means |
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. |
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two. |
A wise traveler never despises his own country. |
Actors are the only honest hypocrites. |
All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it |
Amsterdam did not answer our expectations; it is a kind of paltry, rubbishy Venice |
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself |
An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity. |
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may |
An indigestion is an excellent common-place for two people that never met before. |
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. |
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. |
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts every object into a little universe in itself. |