I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their… — Frances Osborne 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 honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly. — 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 a consumption… — Frances Osborne 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 mind to… — 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 used but… — 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 may have… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more… — 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 liberty remains… — 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 with them… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. — Frances Osborne 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 uttered by… — 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 be mistakes… — Frances Osborne 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 use. — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
