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| What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company. | | Uncategorized | |
| What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s | | Flattery; Opinions | |
| What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence. | | Uncategorized | |
| What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. | | Diligence | |
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| Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure and contempt; and if the liberty of laughing be once indulged, every man will laugh at | | Success | |
| Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings | | Uncategorized | |
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| When a butcher tells you his heart bleeds for his country, he has, in fact, no uneasy feeling. | | Uncategorized | |
| When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand dutie | | Uncategorized | |
| When a man is invited to dinner, he is disappointed if he does not get something good | | Uncategorized | |
| When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford | | Cities | |
| When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. | | Uncategorized | |
| When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others. | | Uncategorized | |
| When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. | | Uncategorized | |
| When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped | | Uncategorized | |
| When I observed he was a fine cat, saying, 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this'; and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.' | | Uncategorized | |
| When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am. | | Confidence | |
| When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live | | Living | |
| When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. | | Uncategorized | |
