Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be appro...
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpresse...
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is...
As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would...
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.