Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.
Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away.
Health consists with temperance alone.
True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
He that would pun would pick a pocket.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side...
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.
To err is human to forgive, divine.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?