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A coward never forgives. - [Forgiveness] A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. - [Adventure] A word, a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart; and like a shaft flying with the wind pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at. - [Feeling] Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. - [Contentment] Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. - [Generosity] Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest. - [Beauty] Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes plainest. - [Dress] Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late; but there is a mark between these two, as fine almost as a hair, for a comforter to take aim at. - [Conspiracy] Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. - [Courtship] Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand. - [Death] Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its weaknesses on thy side! how sweetly dost thou mix with the blood, and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart! - [Flattery] Digressions incontestibly are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. - [Digression] For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies. - [Jokes] Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. - [Skepticism] Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. - [Devil] Grant me patience, just Heaven! Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world--though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst--the cant of criticism is the most tormenting. - [Critics] Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. - [Eloquence] Hail! ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in. - [Courtesy] Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge. - [Anger] Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it. - [Charity] I am persuaded that every time a man smiles--but much more so when he laughs--it adds something to this fragment of life. - [Laughter] I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. - [Meanness] I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life. - [Cheerfulness] I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three,--the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting. - [Intemperance] If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. - [Pride] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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