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