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A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach. - [Taste] A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it. - [World] A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks. - [Children] A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action. - [Marriage] A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness. - [Stubbornness] A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. - [Judges] Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality. - [Death] As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. - [Evil] Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries. - [Poverty] Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command. - [Toleration] Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on. - [Instinct] Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root! - [Vagrant] Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. - [Children] Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free. - [Freedom] Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence. - [Immortality] For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them. - [Satire] Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book. - [Books] Green moss shines there with ice encased; The long grass bends its spear-like form; And lovely is the silvery scene When faint the sun-beams smile. - [Winter] Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. - [Prosperity] He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. - [Ambition] He who never relaxes into sportiveness is a wearisome companion; but beware of him who jests at everything! Such men disparage by some ludicrous association, all objects which are presented to their thoughts, and thereby render themselves incapable of any emotion which can either elevate or soften them; they bring upon their moral being an influence more withering than the blasts of the desert. - [Jesting] He whose heart is not excited upon the spot which a martyr has sanctified by his sufferings, or at the grave of one who has largely benefited mankind, must be more inferior to the multitude in his moral, than he can possibly be raised above them in his intellectual nature. - [Association] His sweetest dreams were still of that dear voice that soothed his infancy. - [Mothers] How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems! - [Appearance] I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly. - [Youth] Displaying page 1 of 5 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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