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I take the true definition of exercise to be labor without weariness. - [Exercise] I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it. - [Indexes] I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits. - [Spirit] Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. - [Idleness] If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. - [Reading] If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. - [Misfortune] If he had two ideas in his head, they would fall out with each other. - [Quarrels] If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion. - [Actors] If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced. - [Misery] If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still. - [Death] If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. - ridiculing Lope de Vega's lines "Se acquien los leones vence", etc. [Tears] If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. - [Agriculture] If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor. - [Women] If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. - [Idleness : Solitude] Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present. - [Ignorance] Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget. - [Ignorance] Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. - in reply to lady asking why "pastern" was defined in dictionary as "the knee of a horse" [Ignorance] Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. - [Ignorance] In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause. - [Impatience] In all pleasure hope is a considerable part. - [Hope] In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. - [Conciseness] In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant. - [Politics] In ancient days, the most celebrated precept was, "Know thyself;" in modern times it has been supplanted by the more fashionable maxim, "Know thy neighbor, and everything about him." - [Inquisitiveness] In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system. - [Appearance] In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised. - [Parents] Displaying page 11 of 37 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
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