Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.
To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.
Your religion... serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.
He said “They were heartily welcome to his poor cottage”, and turning to Mr. Didapper, cried out, ‘Non mea renidet in domo lacunar.’ The beau answered, “He did not understand Welsh”; at which the parson stared and made no reply.
Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that all men should consent in commending goodness, and no man endeavour to deserve that commendation; whilst, on the contrary, all rail at wickedness, and all are as eager to be what they abuse.
As for my landlord, drinking was his trade; and the liquor had no more effect on him than it had on any other vessel in his house. The.
Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any further together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion, of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic whatever.
Chapter iv. Containing such very deep and grave matters, that some readers, perhaps, may not relish it. Square.
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller in this instance, who always proportions his stay at any place to the beauties, elegancies, and curiosities which it affords.
The reader will pardon a digression in which so invaluable a secret is communicated, since every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.
I had now regained my liberty,” said the stranger; “but I had lost my reputation; for there is a wide difference between the case of a man who is barely acquitted of a crime in a court of justice, and of him who is acquitted in his own heart, and in the opinion of the people.
I had rather enjoy my own mind than the fortune of another man. What is the poor pride arising from a magnificent house, a numerous equipage, a splendid table, and from all the other advantages or appearances of fortune, compared to the warm, solid content, the swelling satisfaction, the thrilling transports, and the exulting triumphs, which a good mind enjoys, in the contemplation of a generous, virtuous, noble, benevolent action?
The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable but commendable. And.
As there is no wholesomer, so perhaps there are few stronger, sleeping potions than fatigue.