Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Tis but a part we see and not a whole.
And after all what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Trust not yourself but your defects to know make use of every friend and...
Behold the child by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle tickled with...
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
The learned is happy nature to explore The fool is happy that he knows no...
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would...
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing more a cunning thing but...
They dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her but many a woman hate a...
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian...
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his...
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Hope travels through nor quits us when we die.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is but always To be Blest.
Know then thyself presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Slave to no sect who takes no private road But looks through Nature up to...
Lo! The poor Indian whose untutored mind sees God in clouds or hears him in...
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said Let Newton be! and...
All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the...
A God without dominion providence and final causes is nothing else but...
But blind to former as to future fate what mortal knows his pre-existent...
To err is human to forgive divine.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life...
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's...
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Some people will never learn anything for this reason because they...
What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't...
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation so that each...
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the...
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd like one...
