Health consists with temperance alone.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
To err is human to forgive, divine.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.