I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom...
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or...
I will indulge my sorrows and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and...
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem...
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the...
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest...
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear...
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of...
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the...
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning...
The utmost extent of man's knowledge is to know that he knows nothing.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination...
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess we act and think in vain...
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already...
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are...
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many...
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the...
True happiness arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self...
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to...
If you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend...
What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the soul.
The fear of death often proves mortal and sets people on methods to save...
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has...
Men may change their climate but they cannot change their nature. A man that...
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as...
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure and a weakness...
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts old age is slow in both.
