He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
— Henry Fielding
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
One fool at least in every married couple.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
All nature wears one universal grin.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
