Aaron Hill Quotes

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

She who means no mischief does it all.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Order, thou eye of action.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.