Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Avarice is always poor.
Truth allows no choice.
A vow is a snare for sin
Wretched un-idea'd girls.
Hunger is never delicate.
To build is to be robbed.
Never mind the use--do it!
Applause abates diligence.
The process is the reality.
The joy of life is variety.
Poetry cannot be translation
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
Whatever you have spend less.
Self-love is a busy prompter.
Pleasure itself is not a vice
Security will produce danger.
All history was at first oral.
Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
Money confounds subordination.
The synonyme of usury is ruin.
Occupation alone is happiness.
By writing, you learn to write.
Grief is a species of idleness.
Round numbers are always false.
Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
For who is pleased with himself.
Was ever poet so trusted before?
To be of no Church is dangerous.
Apologies are seldom of any use.
Language is the dress of thought.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
To a poet nothing can be useless.
Indolence is the devil's cushion.
Virtue is too often merely local.
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
Love is only one of many passions.
