| Quotes |
Topic |
| Hospitality | For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. |
| Humility | I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. |
| Humility | The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. |
| Humility | We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. |
| Hunger | Obliged by hunger and request of friends. |
| Hypocrisy | Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. |
| Idleness | Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness. |
| Innocence | He's armed without that's innocent within. |
| Inns | In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung. |
| Instinct | How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near! |
| Instinct | But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. |
| Instinct | But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. |
| Ivy | Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. |
| Ivy | Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. |
| Ivy | Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd. |
| Jealousy | Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. |
| Jewels | Oh her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and Infidels adore. |
| Judges | The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. |
| Judgment | 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. |
| Knowledge | Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. |
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