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!
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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...
Silence is one great art of conversation.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.
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.
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.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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.
Reason with most people means their own opinions.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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...
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.