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 | "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a
worthy purpose." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our
country!" | |
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Found in the topic Country.
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| "From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects
from civil discord flow." | |
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Found in the topic Civil.
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| "A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether
the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric
disposition, married or a bachelor." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but
trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life"s pathway, the good they do
is inconceivable." | |
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Found in the topic Smile.
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| "To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so
to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man." | |
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Found in the topic Just.
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| "Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man." | |
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Found in the topic Sweet.
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| "Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A
man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common
sense." | |
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Found in the topic Common.
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| "A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince
his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and
philosophy. ? Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it
dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to
the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over
the most obstinate and inflexible. ? Philip of Macedon was a man of most
invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens;
confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length
argued them out of all their liberties." | |
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Found in the topic Argument.
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| "Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we
have below." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| ""We are always doing", says he, "something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.?" | |
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Found in the topic Future.
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| "Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or
dominance." | |
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Found in the topic Authority.
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| "Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of
heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to
his country"s ruin?" | |
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Found in the topic Treason.
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| "A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding
clothes." | |
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Found in the topic Advice.
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| "He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember
when he is old, that he has once been young." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol." | |
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Found in the topic Idol.
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| "Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a
discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful." | |
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Found in the topic Symbolism.
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| "A man"s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world." | |
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Found in the topic Conscience.
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| "The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or
leagues of pleasures." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like
one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of
those arts." | |
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Found in the topic Sense.
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