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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

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Hope, like the gleaming taper

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

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Who can direct when all pretend to know?

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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

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Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.

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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

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The jests of the rich are ever successful.

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The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

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