C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
St. Evremond
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.
He is not always at ease who laughs.
History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an illustrious miser.
Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal.
Liberality is the best way to gain affection; for we are assured of their friendship to whom we are obliged.
Politeness is a mixture of discretion, civility, complaisance and circumspection spread over all we do and say.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. We have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit they had not yet attained or for that they no longer possessed.
Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend.
The censure of those that are opposed to us is the nicest commendation that can be given us.
There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage.
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance.
We rarely meet with persons that have true judgment; which, to many, renders literature a very tiresome knowledge. Good judges are as rare as good authors.
We want fewer things to live in poverty with satisfaction, than to live magnificently with riches.