A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

- Edward Young

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

- Edward Young

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

- Edward Young

They only babble who practise not reflection.

- Edward Young

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

- Edward Young

Wonder is involuntary praise.

- Edward Young

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

- Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

- Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

- Edward Young

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

- Edward Young

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

- Edward Young

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

- Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

- Edward Young

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

- Edward Young

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

- Edward Young

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

- Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

- Edward Young

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

- Edward Young

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

- Edward Young

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

- Edward Young