Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.