Quote collection
224 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!"
"Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?"
"Pity swells the tide of love."
"A prince indebted is a fortune made."
"Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit."
"Man maketh a death which Nature never made."
"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."
"As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man."
"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
"Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."
"Affliction is a good man's shining time."
"What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too."
"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
"Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world."
"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure."
"The man of wisdom is the man of years."
"A death-bed's a detector of the heart."
"Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!"
"When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more."
"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan."