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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity... →
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be... →
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled... →
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