Hester Lynch Piozzi Quotes
- It is never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest.
- What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such…
- Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their…
- A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
- Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and…