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| Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis | | Self-love; Vanity; World | |
| Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning | | Wisdom | |
| Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man, from the highest to the lowest station, ought to warm his heart and animate his endeavours with the hopes of being useful to the world, by advancing the art which it is his lot to exercise; and for that end he must necessarily consider th | | Uncategorized | |
| Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language | | Quotations | |
| Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible, | | Reading | |
| Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. | | Men | |
| Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection | | Evil | |
| Example is always more efficacious than precept. | | Example | |
| Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. | | Excellence | |
| Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. | | Uncategorized | |
