Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed. — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
