What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness, -- all in one.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

All human excellence is but comparative -- there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

If she be a woman, and love me, I shall surely catch her once tripping: for love was ever a traitor to its harbourer: and Love within, and I without, she will be more than a woman, as the poet says, or I less than man, if I succeed not.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Calamity is the test of integrity.