All Quotes

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."

"The most positive men are the most credulous..."

"To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves."

"Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few."

"Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."

"Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!"

"Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind."

"And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will."

"Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe."

"If I am right, Thy grace import Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way!"

"Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me."

"Passions...are the gales of life..."

"This is the Jew That Shakespeare drew."

"True politeness consists in the being easy one-self, and making every body about one as easy as we can."

"A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it."

"He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion."

"Never find your delight in another's misfortune."

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."

"Saxum volutum non obducitur musco"

"Never promise more than you can perform."

"No one should be judge in his own cause."

"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."

"Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest."

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

"Don't turn back when you are just at the goal."

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."

"He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself."

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last."

"Money alone sets all the world in motion."

"Be your money's master, not its slave."

"It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody."

"We should provide in peace what we need in war."

"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."

"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."

"No one knows what he can do till he tries."

"They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine."

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

"Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it."

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."

"The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self."

"Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not."

"The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich."

"Either be silent or say something better than silence."

"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

"Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he."

"Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself."

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

"Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word."