A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
A good face is a letter of recommendation.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
A money-lender serves you in the present tense, lends to you in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjunctive, and ruins you in the future.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Better to die ten thousand thousand deaths,
Than wound my honor.
Than wound my honor.
Content thyself to live obscurely good.
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons there is ambition; but in that to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Nothing makes men sharper than want.
Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that of parents toward their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is unnatural.
Of his shallow species there is not a more unfortunate, empty and conceited animal than that which is generally known by the name of a critic.
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion- a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind.
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.
So pernicious a thing is wit, when it is not tempered with virtue and humanity.
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal, false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
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