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Age, when it does not harden the heart and sour the temper, naturally returns to the milky disposition of infancy. Time has the same effect upon the mind as on the face. The pre-dominant passion, the strongest feature, becomes more conspicuous from the others retiring. - [Age] As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. - [Age] Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me and be quiet. - [Dress] Begin nothing without considering what the end may be. - [Advice] Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind. - [Conscience] Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. - [Eloquence] General notions are generally wrong. - [Generalizations] It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one. - [Matrimony] Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion. - [Beauty] No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - [Reading] No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. - [Modesty] People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. - [Fools] True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. - [Knowledge] We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences. - [Amusements] We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned. - [Education] Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers,--they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners and things that never have been, nor are likely to be: either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. - [Novels] But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me. - Answered for [Fruits] Old Lady T-sh-nd [Townshend] formerly observed that the human race might be divided into three separate classes--men, women and H-v-eys [Herveys]. - attributed to Letters and Works, (Lord Wharncliffe's Edition) [Society] That you are in a terrible taking, By all these sweet oglings I see' But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me. - Lines written for Lord William Hamilton [Wooing] The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame. - Poem, written Oct., 1736 [Resignation] Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. - Summary of Lord Littelton's Advice [Apparel] Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide: In part she is to blame that has been tried; He comes too near that comes to be denied. - The Lady's Resolve, in "Works", vol. V, p. 104 (ed. 1804), quoted from Overbury [Wooing] The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play. - The Politicians (st. 4) [Owls] Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse. - To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, (Pope) [Satire] See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest. - Written in a Garden (st. 1) [Doves]
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