| Quotes |
Topic |
| Traveling | Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru, Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. |
| Trifles | There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. |
| Trust | It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. |
| Value | The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. |
| Virtue | Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. |
| Vow | A vow is a snare for sin. |
| Wealth | We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. |
| Will | All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. |
| Wit | This man I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords. |
| Wit | He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. |
| Wit | He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. |
| Wonder | All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. |
| Worth | This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. |
| Writer | 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. |
| Zeal | I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge, "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing." |
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