A woman's life is a history of the affections. 
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. 
But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? 
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination. 
Too young for woe, though not for tears. 
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. 
He that drinks beer, thinks beer. 
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. 
To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. 
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. 
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. 
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare. 
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. 
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[I]n the gloomy month of February ... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time ... 
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. 
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. 
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing. 
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. 
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. 
It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. 
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. 
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. 
There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity. 
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for. 
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. 
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. 
It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first. 
The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. 
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation! 
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. 
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. 
I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them. 
Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. 
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. 
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them. 
After a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head 
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. 
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. 
One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right. 
The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation. 
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. 
Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others. 
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. 
Enthusiasts soon understand each other. 
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. 
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government. 
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. 
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. 
Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, 
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it 
There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind. 
The oil and wine of merry meeting. 
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. 