Men hate more steadily than they love.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word; I therefore extracted from philosophers principles of science; from historians remarkable facts; from chymists complete processes; from divines striking exhortations; and from poets beautiful descriptions.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.