O happiness! our being’s end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate’er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
A wise physician, skill’d our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
But if you’ll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Wit is the lowest form of humor.