Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
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Crime generally punishes itself.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
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The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.
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The very pink of perfection.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Let school-masters puzzle their brain. With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;...
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
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