Maria Edgeworth Quotes
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
There is no moment like the present; not only so, but, moreover, there is no moment at all,--that is, no instant force and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
A man who sells his conscience for his interest, will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country, will betray his friend.
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.