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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] In part she is to blame that has been tried. He comes too late that comes to be denied. - [Temptation] It goes far to reconciling me to being a women when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one. - [Women] 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] One can never outlive one's vanity. - [Vanity] People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. - [Fools] Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. - [Politeness] True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. - [Knowledge] Vices are often hid under the name of virtues, and the practice of them followed by the worst consequences. I have seen ladies indulge their own ill-humor by being very rude and impertinent, and think they deserve approbation by saying, "I love to speak the truth." - [Vice] We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived. - [Shakespeare] 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] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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