Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

To err is human to forgive, divine.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man.

In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.