The world is a tragedy to those who feel but a comedy to those who think.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.