All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little. |
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? |
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. |
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. |
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. |
Where wealth accumulates, men decay. |
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. |
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. |
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. |
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. |
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! |
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. |
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. |
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. |
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. |
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. |
They say women and music should never be dated. |
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. |
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. |
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. |