“I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.”
“Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.”
“We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.”
“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.”
“Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”
“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”
“When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.”
“The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.”
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
“Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.”
“Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.”
“Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.”
“When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.”
“It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.”
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.”
“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.”
“All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.”
“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.”
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.”
“A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.”
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”
“They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.”
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.”
“What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.”
“He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.”