Society and the World

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

Every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay every thing open.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Oh! who can ever be tired of Bath?

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Mankind have been created for the sake of one another. Either instruct them, therefore, or endure them.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum.

Audi partem alteram.

Dilige et quod vis fac.

You command continence; give what you command, and command what you will.

Art is born of humiliation.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.