The bashful virgin’s sidelong looks of love.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can’t abide to disappoint myself.
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush’d or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all.
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there’s no love lost between us.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
The first blow is half the battle.
They liked the book better the more it made them cry.
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.