Edward Young

“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”

“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”

“All men think all men mortal, but themselves.”

“Wishing of all employments is the worst.”

“They only babble who practise not reflection.”

“The man that makes a character, makes foes.”

“Friendship is the wine of life.”

“The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.”

“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”

“A Christian is the highest style of man.”

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”

“None think the great unhappy, but the great.”

“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”

“Wise it is to comprehend the whole.”

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”

“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”

“The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.”

“Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.”

“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”