"Wit is the lowest form of humor."

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."

"Woman's at best a contradiction still."

"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."

"For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest."

"Men would be angels, angels would be gods."

"Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men."

"I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not."

"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart."

"Passions are the gales of life."

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground."

"All gardening is landscape painting."

"Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return."

"In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."

"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind."

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."

"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still."

"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."

"To err is human to forgive divine."

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er."

"If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do."

"Some praise at morning what they blame at night."

"The feast of reason and the flow of soul."

"Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found."

"All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n."

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."

"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."

"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;Thus unlamented let me die;Steal from the world, and not a stoneTell where I lie."

"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise."

"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."

"There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul."

"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."

"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven."

"Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie."

"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."