Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the re...
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Should the whole frame of nature round him break,In ruin and confusion hurled,He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,And stand secure amidst a falling world.
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.
Colors speak all languages.
... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, faction...
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.