'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, We'll deserve it.

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.

A cobbler, produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new pe ...