 Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. |
| The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. |
| Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. |
| I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. |
| Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. |
| What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. |
| It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. |
| The true art of memory is the art of attention. |
| Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. |
| Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. |
| Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. |
| He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. |
| Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. |
| It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. |
| He who praises everybody, praises nobody. |
| He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. |
| All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. |
| What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. |
| The future is purchased by the present. |
| No man was ever great by imitation. |
