"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside"
"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business"
"I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few"
"Gentle dullness ever loves a joke"
"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly"
"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right"
"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best"
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"
"Fools admire, but men of sense approve"
"Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men"
"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use"
"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined"
"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind"
"Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!"
"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause"
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man"
"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below"
"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child"
"Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance"
"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind"
"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave"
"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still"
"The proper study of Mankind is Man"
"The most positive men are the most credulous"
"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more"
"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine"
"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person"
"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice"
"Passions are the gales of life"
"Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few"
"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after"
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease"
"Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever"
"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe"
"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can"
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance"
"To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake"
"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres"
