The very pink of perfection.
Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasan...
To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.
If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.
I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.