I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, an...
When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four.
If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.