 A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind. |
| Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. |
| Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. |
| Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. |
| The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. |
| A fool and his words are soon parted. |
| The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. |
| The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. |
| Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. |
| What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. |
| The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased. |
| A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. |
| There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. |
| His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. |
| A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. |
| Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. |
| Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. |
| The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. |
| Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. |
| Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. |
