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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.