He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Accustomed Copy Share Image
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Common Copy Share Image
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Constrain Copy Share Image
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Comets Copy Share Image
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Composition Copy Share Image
Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Known Copy Share Image
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Agonizing Copy Share Image
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Attainment Copy Share Image
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Distinction Copy Share Image
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Ambition Copy Share Image
