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A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it. - [Satire] A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. - [Greatness] A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself. - [Misfortune] A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy. - [God] A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. - [Education] A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die. - [War] A true critic ought rather to dwell upon excellences than imperfections, to discern the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. - [Critics] A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a food light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms. - [Women] A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors. - [Commerce] Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - [Admiration] Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador. - in the "Tatler", no. 224 [Journalism] All of heaven we have below. - [Music] All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter. - [Family] Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. - [Allegories] Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius. - [Shakespeare] Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear. - [Satire] Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure. - [Anxiety] An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins. - [Evil] An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. - [Familiarity] An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes. - [Indiscretion] An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. - [Opera] An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. - [Ostentation] Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - [Instinct] Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. - [Argument] Arnobius tells us that this martyrdom first of all made them seriously inquisitive into that religion which could endue the mind with so much strength and overcome the fear of death. - [Martyrs] Displaying page 2 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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