 The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. |
| The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. |
| With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. |
| Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. |
| Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. |
| A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. |
| Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. |
| Tenderness is a virtue. |
| Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. |
| Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. |
| People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. |
| The jests of the rich are ever successful. |
| Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. |
| Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. |
| You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. |
| Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes. |
| Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. |
| I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. |
| Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. |
| Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. |
