“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise”
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“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise”
“A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes”
“A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor”
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress”
“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter”
“A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature”
“Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved”
“There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity”
“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness”
“The post of honour is a private station”
“The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action”
“He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young”
“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.””
“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations”
““What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable”
“Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them”
“No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul”