- The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
- Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
- Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
- There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
- It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
- You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
- The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
- Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
- Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
- Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
- Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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