We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a… — 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
It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched. — 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
“The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior… — 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
