The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
God made the country, and man made the town.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
The beggarly last doit.
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
A noisy man is always in the right.
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry – Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.