An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.
His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say “Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today.”
Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say “Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today.”
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.