‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Sweet is revenge – especially to women.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer – In health – when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

To fly from, need not be to hate mankind

Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print; A book’s a book, although there’s nothing’ in ‘t

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.

By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly.

When Bishop Berkeley said `there was no matter’, / And proved it – ’twas no matter what he said.

Such hath it been – shall be – beneath the sun the many still must labor for the one

She had consented to create again / That Adam, called `the happiest of men’.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much / and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go...

Hatred is the madness of the heart

Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.

The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one!

If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? – With silence and tears

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman’s rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty

Her great merit is finding out mine — there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

I loathe that low vice curiosity

Nor be, what man should ever be, / The friend of Beauty in distress?

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

He makes a solitude, and calls it – peace

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind: / All are not fit with them to stir and toil, / Nor is it discontent to keep the mind / Deep in its fountain.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, There is no sterner moralist than Pleasure

War’s a brain spattering windpipe splitting art.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

The would-be wits and can’t-be gentlemen, I leave them to their daily “”tea is ready,”” Smug coterie and literary lady

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung, / Where grew the arts of war and peace, / Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! / Eternal summer gilds...

The arena swims around him – he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so — or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.

But he, with first a start and then a wink, / Said, `There’s another star gone out, I think!’

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Talk six times with the same single lady and you may get the wedding dress ready

Tis said that persons living on annuities are longer lived than others

I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.