Emotions and Feelings

… Duas tantum res anxius optat,

Travel light and you can sing in the robber’s face.

It’s hard not to write satire.

O, father forsaken, Forgive your son!

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

Suns, that set, may rise again;

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The black dog I hope always to resist, and in time to drive, though I am deprived of almost all those that used to help me.

The black dog I hope always to resist, and in time to drive, though I am deprived of almost all those that used to help me.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.

Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

The triumph of hope over experience.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.