A little thing will
turn and divert us
Abominate that incidental
repentance which old age brings
Age imprints more wrinkles
in the mind than it does on the face
Always be parading their
pedantic science
Am as jealous of my
repose as of my authority
Anger and hatred are
beyond the duty of justice
Beast of company, as
the ancient said, but not of the herd
Books go side by side
with me in my whole course
Books have many charming
qualities to such as know how to choose
But ill proves the honour
and beauty of an action by its utility
Childish ignorance of
many very ordinary things
Common consolation,
discourages and softens me
Consoles himself upon
the utility and eternity of his writings
Deceit maintains and
supplies most men’s employment
Diverting the opinions
and conjectures of the people
Dying appears to him
a natural and indifferent accident
Every place of retirement
requires a walk
Fault will be theirs
for having consulted me
Few men have been admired
by their own domestics
Follies do not make
me laugh, it is our wisdom which does
Folly to put out their
own light and shine by a borrowed lustre
For fear of the laws
and report of men
Gently to bear the inconstancy
of a lover
Give but the rind of
my attention
Grief provokes itself
He may employ his passion,
who can make no use of his reason
He may well go a foot,
they say, who leads his horse in his hand
I do not consider what
it is now, but what it was then
I find no quality so
easy to counterfeit as devotion
I lay no great stress
upon my opinions; or of others
I look upon death carelessly
when I look upon it universally
I receive but little
advice, I also give but little
I speak truth, not so
much as I would, but as much as I dare
I understand my men
even by their silence and smiles
Idleness is to me a
very painful labour
Imagne the mighty will
not abase themselves so much as to live
In ordinary friendships
I am somewhat cold and shy
Leaving nothing unsaid,
how home and bitter soever
Library: Tis there
that I am in my kingdom
Malice sucks up the
greatest part of its own venom
Malicious kind of justice
Miserable kind of remedy,
to owe one’s health to one’s disease!
Miserable, who has not
at home where to be by himself
More supportable to
be always alone than never to be so.
My fancy does not go
by itself, as when my legs move it
My thoughts sleep if
I sit still
Nearest to the opinions
of those with whom they have to do
No evil is honourable;
but death is honourable
No man is free from
speaking foolish things
Noise of arms deafened
the voice of laws
None of the sex, let