This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel..

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove….

Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imit….

When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him al….

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil..

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other..

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch..

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of….

If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist o….

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having ….

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart..

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his..

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the ….

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be gr….

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage..

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think t….

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent..

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly wome….

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know..

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of p….