H.P. Oliver Quotes

Crime generally punishes itself.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

Maybe next time, but probably not.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

They say women and music should never be dated.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.

See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.