A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the h...
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good.
The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book I assure you.
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.
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.
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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...
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratificati...
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.