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A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. - [Dress] A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. - [Curiosity] A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another. - [Heart] Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. - [Age] Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. - [Fortune] All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. - [Faults] All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. - [Husbands : Wives] An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. - [Appearance] An Englishman fears contempt more than death. - [Contempt] As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society. - [Economy] Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. - [Beggars] Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart? - [Integrity] But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse reams alone, And find no spot of all the world my own. - [Exile] Crimes generally punish themselves. - [Crime] E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. - [Proverbs] Error is ever talkative. - [Error] Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend. - [Friends] Ev'n children followed with endearing wile And pluck'd his gown to share the good man's smile. - [Clergymen] Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. - [Absurdity] Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt. - [Gratitude] Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. - [Fancy] Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment. - [Fear] Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family. - [Obedience] Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view. - [Eloquence] For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. - [Flattery] Displaying page 1 of 11 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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