We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those places, for… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
