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A summer friendship, whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity. - [Friendship] As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. - [Dress] Black detraction will find faults where they are not. - [Detraction] Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome. - [Cheerfulness] Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors. - [Conscience] Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on. - [Detraction] Equal nature fashion'd us All in one mould. * * * All's but the outward gloss And politic form that does distinguish us. - [Equality] Gold--the picklock that never fails. - [Gold] Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy. - [Mercy] Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she gives; that does Nothing but what she'll suffer. - [Honor] Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches. - [News] It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity. - [Fortitude] Like a rough orator, that brings more truth than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. - [Accusation] Malice, scorned, puts out itself; but, argued, gives a kind of credit to a false accusation. - [Malice] Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way. - [Ambition] One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices. - [Devotion] Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read. - [Bribery] The almighty dollar!(Irving, Washington} The picklock that never fails. - [Money] The over curious are not over wise. - [Curiosity] The soul is strong that trusts in goodness. - [Goodness] Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee. - [Cupid] 'Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet. - [Death] To all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. - [Husbands] To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. - [Despair : Doubt] True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. - [Dignity] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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