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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Affirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

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