The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest t...
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
Reflection makes men cowards.
the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no be...
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me...
Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mighty...
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!
A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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