Occupation: Novelist Birth: November 10, 1730 Death: April 4, 1774
In all the silent manliness of grief..
All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters.
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture..
But winter lingering chills the lap of May..
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood..
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more..
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at ….
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made..
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise..
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing..
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails..
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously..
Though very poor, may still be very blest..
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!.
Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes..
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading..
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing..
Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook..
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy..
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jok….