Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.Collection: Jealousy
Love is love's reward.Collection: Love
Beware the fury of a patient man.Collection: Patience
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.Collection: Nature
And plenty makes us poor.Collection: Money
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.Collection: Education
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.Collection: Money
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.Collection: Great
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.Collection: Brainy
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.Collection: Death
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.Collection: Anger
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.Collection: Love
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.Collection: Hope
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.Collection: Poetry
Successful crimes alone are justified.Collection: Alone
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.Collection: Forgiveness
But love's a malady without a cure.Collection: Love
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.Collection: Happiness
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.Collection: Anger
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.Collection: Fear
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Alone
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.