Edward Young Quotes on Character
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
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A death-bed 's a detector of the heart.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.