“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
Best“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”
Best“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
Best“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
Friendship“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
Friendship“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.”
Teacher“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”
Power“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”
Fear“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
Education“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
Friendship“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
Nature“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
Travel“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”
Age“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”
Art“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”
Art“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
Poetry“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
Art“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”
Best“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”
Truth“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
Hope“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
Alone“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
Knowledge