Dignity And Love Were Never Yet Boon

Nothing Can Be So Quick And Sudden As The Operations Of The Mind, Especially When Hope, Or Fear, Or Jealousy, To Which The Other Two Are But Journeymen, Set It To Work.

Great Vices Are The Proper Objects Of Our Detestation, Smaller Faults Of Our Pity, But Affectation Appears To Be The Only True Source Of The Ridiculous.

Let No Man Be Sorry He Has Done Good, Because Others Concerned With Him Have Done Evil! If A Man Has Acted Right, He Has Done Well, Though Along; If Wrong, The Sanction Of All Mankind Will Not Justify Him.

There Are Two Considerations Which Always Imbitter The Heart Of An Avaricious Man--the One Is A Perpetual Thirst After More Riches, The Other The Prospect Of Leaving What He Has Already Acquired.

The Greatest Part Of Mankind Labor Under One Delirium Or Another; And Don Quixote Differed From The Rest, Not In Madness, But The Species Of It. The Covetous, The Prodigal, The Superstitious, The Libertine, And The Coffee-house Politician, Are All Quixotes In Their Several Ways.