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| There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications | | Art; Business | |
| There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other | | Uncategorized | |
| There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets | | Writers | |
| There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. | | Uncategorized | |
| There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. | | Uncategorized | |
| There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence | | Family | |
| There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good | | Community | |
| They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty | | Liberty | |
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| They that enter into the world are too often treated with unreasonable rigor by those that were once as ignorant and heady as themselves; and distinction is not always made between the faults which require speedy and violent eradication, and those t | | Uncategorized | |
| They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority. | | Uncategorized | |
| They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present | | Uncategorized | |
| They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it | | Uncategorized | |
| Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. | | Uncategorized | |
| This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever | | Uncategorized | |
| This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords | | Uncategorized | |
