Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Where’er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where’er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.