Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
You are indebted to your imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
David Garrick
A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
You may all go to pot.
Oliver Goldsmith
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
J J Rousseau
For a' that and a' that,
It's coming yet, for a' that,
That man to man the world o'er
Shall brothers be for a' that.
Robert Burn
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by!
Thomas Carlyle
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.