A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size..

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically,….

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves..

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other..

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them..

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spre….

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make….

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay..

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another..

Little things are great to little men..

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die..

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or ev….

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can ….

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the b….

The jests of the rich are ever successful..

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success..

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress..

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po..

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning..

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resemble….

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming….