All Quotes

"Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly."

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of."

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss."

"Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour."

"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; Legions of angels can't confine me there."

"To waft a feather or to drown a fly."

"Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn."

"Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer."

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same."

"All men think all men mortal but themselves."

"He mourns the dead who lives as they desire."

"And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell."

"Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more."

""I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown."

"Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!"

"Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched."

"The spirit walks of every day deceased."

"Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens."

"Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile."

"'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven."

"Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun."

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."

"Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new (Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure."

"How blessings brighten as they take their flight!"

"The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg’d beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven."

"A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart."

"Virtue alone has majesty in death."

"Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other’s heel."

"Beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay."

"Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love."

"Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,—a naked human heart."

"... life is most enjoy'd when courted least, most worth, when disesteemed,..."

"The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm."

"Man makes a death which Nature never made."

"And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one."

"Wishing, of all employments, is the worst."

"Man wants little, nor that little long."

"A God all mercy is a God unjust."

"’Tis impious in a good man to be sad"

"A Christian is the highest style of man."

"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."

"By night an atheist half believes a God."

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."

"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs."

"Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven."

"We see time’s furrows on another’s brow, And death intrench’d, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!"