AARON HILL

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

What position didn't I play last season?

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Order, thou eye of action.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

She who means no mischief does it all.