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| Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale. | | Uncategorized | |
| Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme | | Uncategorized | |
| Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled | | Uncategorized | |
| Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. | | Uncategorized | |
| Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. | | Uncategorized | |
| Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other. | | Uncategorized | |
| Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. | | Uncategorized | |
Unless a woman has an amorous heart,
she is a dull companion | | Uncategorized | |
| Virtue is too often merely local. | | Virtue | |
| Walpole was a minister given by the King to the people: -- /Pitt was a minister given by the people to the King. | | Uncategorized | |
| Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? | | Uncategorized | |
| Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means | | Uncategorized | |
| We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty | | Uncategorized | |
| We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure | | Uncategorized | |
| We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor, | | Crime | |
| We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us | | Uncategorized | |
| We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him | | Uncategorized | |
| We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember | | Uncategorized | |