The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful oppone….

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success..

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise..

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies..

Those who think must govern those that toil..

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself..

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery..

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors..

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . ..

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry..

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind..

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions ….

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year..

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every othe….

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw..

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer..

Hope, like the gleaming taper.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries..

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love..

The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the….