Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

- Henry Mackenzie

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.

- Henry Mackenzie

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

- Henry Mackenzie

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire…

- Henry Mackenzie

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those wh…

- Henry Mackenzie

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pe…

- Henry Mackenzie

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were…

- Henry Mackenzie

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided k…

- Henry Mackenzie

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

- Henry Mackenzie