Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
THE rule for travelling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind us. The object of travelling is to see and learn; but such is our impatience of ignorance, or the je...
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit either in business or reputation im...
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affec...
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming...
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.