Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. |
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. |
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. |
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune. |
The perfection of art is to conceal art. |
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. |
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. |
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. |
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. |
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. |
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. |
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. |
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. |
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. |
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. |
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. |
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. |
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. |
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. |
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. |