“It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
“Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.”
“People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.”
“No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.”
“Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.”
“But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.”
“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”
“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.”
“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
“Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.”
“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.”
“The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.”
“Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.”
“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
“The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.”
“People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.”
“A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.”
“With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.”
“The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.”
“Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.”
“A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.”
“He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.”
“The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.”
“There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.”
“Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.”
“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
“Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.”