A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Colors speak all languages.
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future.
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