"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."
"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."
"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate."
"Is not absence death to those who love?"
"Tis well - but, Artists! who can paint or write,<BR>To draw the naked is your true delight:<BR>That robe of quality so struts and swells,<BR>None see what parts of nature it conceals.<BR>Th' exactest traits of body or of mind,<BR>We owe to models of an humble kind."
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."
"All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye."
"Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies."
"Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away."
"Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing! drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."
"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise!"
"Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven."
"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
"Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet."
"Not to go back, is somewhat to advance, And men must walk at least before they dance."
"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,<br>Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."
"One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."
"Pride is a good thing to have, but don't overdose on it: Pride, the never failing vice of fools."
"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot."