A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.