| Quotes |
Topic |
| Conversation | His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. |
| Courage | Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. |
| Courtiers | To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. |
| Cows | A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden. |
| Criticism | Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. |
| Cruelty | The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. |
| Debt | Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. |
| Dependence | No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. |
| Desire | Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. |
| Diligence | What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. |
| Diligence | Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance. |
| Disease | Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes. |
| Distrust | When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. |
| Distrust | A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it. |
| Eating | For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. |
| Eating | For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. |
| Economy | Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor. |
| Fanaticism | I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. |
| Fanaticism | As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas. |
| Fanaticism | Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. |
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