There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
There’s no taking trout with dry breeches.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
That which costs little is less valued.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
Honesty’s the best policy.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.