English
Novelist
(December 16,
1775 -
July 18,
1817)
"An artist cannot do anything slovenly."
"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
"Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
"There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves."
"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
