| Quotes |
Topic |
| Scotland | The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. |
| Secrecy | To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly. |
| Secrecy | Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. |
| Secrets | To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly. |
| Shakespeare | The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. |
| Ships | Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. |
| Slander | Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. |
| Society | I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. |
| Statistics | Round numbers are always false. |
| Stupidity | He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. |
| Stupidity | Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull, but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature. |
| Suspicion | He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. |
| Temperance | Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. |
| Thankfulness | I am glad that he thanks God for anything. |
| The sexes | Remarriage, A triumph of hope over experience. |
| Theory | Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. |
| Theory | Conjecture as to things useful, is good, but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. |
| Traveling | As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. |
| Traveling | Let him go abroad to a distant country, let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known. |
| Traveling | The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. |
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