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The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. - [Frugality] The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety. - [Trees] Theirs is the present who can praise the past. - [Past] There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford. - [Rank] There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song. - [Songs] There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. - [Reserve] They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood. - [Lying] Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage. - [Dress] Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance. - [Trifles] Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. - [Virtue] We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman. - [Gentlemen] What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. - [Unhappiness] When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. - [Misfortune] When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. - [Books] Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes. - [Schools] Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment. - [Wit] Yet why repine? I have seen mansions on the verge of Wales that convert my farm-house into a Hampton Court, and where they speak of a glazed window as a great piece of magnificence. All things figure by comparison. - [Comparison] Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. - [Belief] My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep; My grottoes are shaded with trees, And my hills are white over with sheep. - A Pastoral Ballad (pt. II, Hope) [Nature] Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. - Detached Thoughts on Men and Manners [Thought] I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun. - Egotisms [Names] I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil. - Elegies (XI, st. 7) [Learning] For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true. - Jemmy Dawson (st. 20) [Story Telling] Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, still impotent to rise. - Moral Pieces--The Judgment of Hercules (l. 436) [Fame] Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. - Ode to a Lady [Sense] Displaying page 4 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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