The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is,… — Frances Osborne Brain Copy Share Image
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever… — Frances Osborne Advantage Copy Share Image
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne Candle Copy Share Image
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students… — Frances Osborne Book Copy Share Image
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. — Frances Osborne Controversy Copy Share Image
Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will… — Frances Osborne Divinity Copy Share Image
When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he… — Frances Osborne Bears Copy Share Image
