People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there. — 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 certain respect for the follies of mankind: for there are so many fools whom the opinion… — 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
