The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom no clock can...
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
When I tell the truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not...
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
In seed time learn in harvest teach in winter enjoy.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Can I see another's woe and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief...
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre?...
Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in...
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun and a bag...
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause...
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made...
Love seeketh not itself to please nor for itself hath any care but for...
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses...
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is...
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a...
Fun I love but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is...
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
