An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
Come when you’re called; And do as you’re bid; Shut the door after you; And you’ll never be chid.
Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife’s mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.
Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice...
We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.