I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
- Henry Fielding
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
All nature wears one universal grin.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
More Quotes
Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence – such things are forged in adversity.
You bring out the best in yourself by looking for the best in others.
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
