The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Dogs, ye have had your day!

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.