If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Friendship, ‘the wine of life,’ said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
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