- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
- Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
- A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
- I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
- Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
- Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
- It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
- You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.
- Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
- There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
- In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
- There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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