Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Never find fault with the absent.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.