The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Desert and reward, I can assure her, seldom keep company.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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